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Polish Speaking Germans?

Contributing Writers

November 11, 2012

By: Dr. Richard Blanke

http://umaine.edu/history/faculty/dr-richard-blanke/

Polish Speaking Germans?: Language And National Identity Among The Masurians Since 1871 by Richard Blanke

Representative Publications: (books)

‘Polish-speaking Germans?’ Language and National Identity among the Prussian Masurians (2001)
Orphans of Versailles: Germans in Western Poland, 1918-1939 (1993)
Prussian Poland in the German Empire, 1871-1900 (1981)
also articles in Journal of Modern History, Journal of Contemporary History, Slavic Review, Slavonic and East European Review, Nationalities Papers, etc.

Work in Progress:

Ethnic cleansing in east-central Europe after World War II