Posted by
AJH on Monday, April 14, 2008 6:15:00 PM
Here is a little background on what I would like to study. Obviously it is controversial, but I want to take a look and be fair to all sides. -- Aaron
"Some people in Poland obviously fear that Berlin, with the help of the EU, wants to take on a dominant role in Europe once again.” -- German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier
The German Federation of Expellees opened an exhibition in Berlin in August of 2006 depicting the fate of the hundreds of thousands of ethnic Germans forced out of Poland. Polish Prime Minister Kaczynski accused the exhibition of "equating the victims with the persecutors".
“It is estimated that almost 660,000 Germans were forced to leave Poland after 1945, leaving property and possessions behind. Despite the issue's increase in prominence in the context of German-Polish relations over the past year, neither government is engaged in the reparation process. The German government maintains that it has no property claims on Poland, that the borders between the two countries are recognized and that surviving expellees and relatives of those who have since died are pursuing compensation cases in German courts without government assistance.” -- European Social Survey
Federation of Expellees
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_of_Expellees
Organised persecution of ethnic Germans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organised_persecution_of_ethnic_Germans
The Language of Belonging
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.cgi?path=151801206977085
Problems of Cross-Border Regional Integration
The Case of the German-Polish Border Area
http://eur.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/5/3/249
Leaning from the Ruhr Valley
http://www.buero-kopernikus.org/en/article/31/6/
Challenges for the Welfare State. German and Polish Reform Policies in Comparison
http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=8940
The German-Polish Border Region. A Case of Regional Integration?http://www.arena.uio.no/publications/wp97_19.htm
The Euroregion as a Social Capital Maximizer: The German-Polish Euroregion Pro-Europa Viadrina
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/rfs/2002/00000012/00000004/art00009
Prostitution on the Polish-German border
http://www.popline.org/docs/277222
Central and Eastern European Online Library
http://www.ceeol.com
House for Polish-German Co-operation
http://haus.pl/en/information1.html
European Social Survey
http://www.scp.nl/ess/events/r3/event.asp?id=1171