Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung / Journal of East Central European Studies (ZfO)
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Vom Löwen zum Adler. Der Übergang Schwedisch-Pommerns an Preußen 1815. Hrsg. von Nils Jörn und Dirk Schleinert.
Get PDFDie Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland 1933–1945. Band 10: Polen: Die eingegliederten Gebiete August 1941–1945. Bearb. von Ingo Loose.
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Get PDFIntroduction: New Approaches to Research on Everyday Life in Eastern Europe during World War II: The Case Studies of Poland and Lithuania
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Antwort auf die Rezension von Jacek Kordel in der Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 70 (2021), S. 101-104, von Georg Ziaja
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Grenzgänger und Entsandte: Polnische Mitarbeiter und Delegierte bei der International Labour Organization, 1919–1950
No full textBorder Crossers and Deputees: Polish Employees and Delegates to the International Labour Organization, 1919–1950: As recent research has shown, the newly founded Polish state cooperated closely with the International Labour Organization (ILO), which was simultaneously established in Geneva (as part of the Versailles order). Against this backdrop, the present article focusses on the personnel involved in this cooperation, and therefore on two individual groups. The first smaller group consists of the permanent staff in Geneva and in Warsaw. Their fates are examined under the circumstances of several system changes: during the democratic regime, during the authoritarian regime after the Piłsudski coup of 1926, and during World War II towards the seizure of power by the Communists. As representatives of a highly educated elite of cosmopolitan internationals, those employees were increasingly marginalized, especially since the fundamental idea of the ILO, the preservation of peace through compliance with social standards, was sustainably questioned by the system changes. The second larger group in focus consists of those delegated by the Polish government to the annual conferences of the ILO, the International Labour Conferences (ILC). In accordance with the principle of tripartism, representatives of employers, employees and the government, each accompanied by experts, were sent to the conferences. From 1926, a largely identical group was sent to Geneva, and this led to an almost complete amalgamation of the functional and political elite. This finding applies to all three categories of representatives. Overall, the system change of 1926 did not have a direct effect on the employees. With regard to the delegates, however, the new regime used a stategy of apporpriation. The work of both groups was interrupted during World War II; afterwards, the surviving participants could hardly continue with the old structures only on a very limited scale.Border Crossers and Deputees: Polish Employees and Delegates to the International Labour Organization, 1919–1950: As recent research has shown, the newly founded Polish state cooperated closely with the International Labour Organization (ILO), which was simultaneously established in Geneva (as part of the Versailles order). Against this backdrop, the present article focusses on the personnel involved in this cooperation, and therefore on two individual groups. The first smaller group consists of the permanent staff in Geneva and in Warsaw. Their fates are examined under the circumstances of several system changes: during the democratic regime, during the authoritarian regime after the Piłsudski coup of 1926, and during World War II towards the seizure of power by the Communists. As representatives of a highly educated elite of cosmopolitan internationals, those employees were increasingly marginalized, especially since the fundamental idea of the ILO, the preservation of peace through compliance with social standards, was sustainably questioned by the system changes. The second larger group in focus consists of those delegated by the Polish government to the annual conferences of the ILO, the International Labour Conferences (ILC). In accordance with the principle of tripartism, representatives of employers, employees and the government, each accompanied by experts, were sent to the conferences. From 1926, a largely identical group was sent to Geneva, and this led to an almost complete amalgamation of the functional and political elite. This finding applies to all three categories of representatives. Overall, the system change of 1926 did not have a direct effect on the employees. With regard to the delegates, however, the new regime used a stategy of apporpriation. The work of both groups was interrupted during World War II; afterwards, the surviving participants could hardly continue with the old structures only on a very limited scale
Johanna Brade, Tobias Weger: Kunst zur Kriegszeit 1914–1918. Künstler aus Schlesien zwischen Hurrapatriotismus und Friedenssehnsucht
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Scripting Refugees: Historians and Narrations of Refugeedom in Czechoslovak History
No full textThe article analyses the current state of historical research on twentiethcentury refugees who fled to Czechoslovakia. By highlighting parallels in the narratives of different types of migration, it demonstrates how methodological nationalism influences historiographic writ-ing about refugees. It argues that most of the published research can be attributed to one of two broadly conceived scripts, one of which focuses political refugees while the other ad-dresses mass displacements due to war or ethnic cleansing. Whereas historians tend to depict those in the former category especially the refugees from Russia and Ukraine and from Nazi Germany in the interwar period with an individual focus on their biographies and agency, the latter group, in particular refugees during World War I and after the Munich Agreement, are treated in a more general manner that dwells on statistics and government-produced categories. Political refugees are portrayed as active participants in cultural and political struggles, while the masses of refugees tend to be viewed as passive recipients of aid. The study illustrates how the production of historical sources by elite members of refu-gee groups on the one hand, and nation-states on the other, influences the structure of histor-ical narratives, both in terms of what is emphasized and what goes unsaid or unheard.The article analyses the current state of historical research on twentiethcentury refugees who fled to Czechoslovakia. By highlighting parallels in the narratives of different types of migration, it demonstrates how methodological nationalism influences historiographic writ-ing about refugees. It argues that most of the published research can be attributed to one of two broadly conceived scripts, one of which focuses political refugees while the other ad-dresses mass displacements due to war or ethnic cleansing. Whereas historians tend to depict those in the former category especially the refugees from Russia and Ukraine and from Nazi Germany in the interwar period with an individual focus on their biographies and agency, the latter group, in particular refugees during World War I and after the Munich Agreement, are treated in a more general manner that dwells on statistics and government-produced categories. Political refugees are portrayed as active participants in cultural and political struggles, while the masses of refugees tend to be viewed as passive recipients of aid. The study illustrates how the production of historical sources by elite members of refu-gee groups on the one hand, and nation-states on the other, influences the structure of histor-ical narratives, both in terms of what is emphasized and what goes unsaid or unheard
