Książka zakazana i niepożądana w niemieckich bibliotekach szkolnych i oświatowych w II Rzeczypospolitej

Abstract

The German minority in Poland in the Second Republic of Poland constituted about 740 thousand people, which gave it the fifth place after the Ukrainians, Jews, Russians and Belarusians. Real power and role of Germans in Poland were far beyond a demographic factor. Germans inhabited mainly western and northern voivodeships in Poland, and had a pretty big economic potential at their disposal. They were also a political power in their attempts to a parliament and local self‑governments. German minority was well‑organised, acted in numerous associations and societies of professional and cultural profiles. Except for Germans living in eastern voivodeships of the Second Republic of Poland, Germans, literate in majority, were active participants in a cultural life. Four factors played an indirect role in maintaining and reinforcing national identity, namely family, school, church and media. The aim of the text is to present the role of book in the very process. Deliberations will cover these German books which from the point of view of Polish authorities spread revisionist and Pole‑destructive opinions among Germans and were eliminated by them. The subject of analysis constitutes the literature gathered in German school and public libraries, educational and academic ones. A special emphasis was put on spreading books propagating the Nazist ideology in German libraries. Zdzisław Gębołyś Verbotenes und