Examining Fate: The Debate over Children’s Identity in the Border Areas of Interwar Eastern Upper Silesia

This article deals with two little-known disputes over the national identity of a population in the interwar border area of Eastern Upper Silesia. This area was transferred from Germany to Poland after World War I as a result of a plebiscite. Its local population, the Silesians, did not consider the...

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Published in:	Acta Universitatis Carolinae Studia Territorialia
Main Author:	Anna Novikov
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Karolinum Press 2019-11-01
Subjects:	world war i league of nations poland upper silesia education nation-building
Online Access:	http://stuter.fsv.cuni.cz/index.php/stuter/article/view/768

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