Analysis of the Oder–Neisse line status in British and American historiography (1945–1990)

Iryna Kaviaka

doi:10.31648/ep.4843

Published: 2019-12-151

No. XX/1 (2019)

Analysis of the Oder–Neisse line status in British and American historiography (1945–1990)

Iryna Kaviaka

Echa Przeszłości

Section: ARTICLES

https://doi.org/10.31648/ep.4843

Abstract

The article analyzes British and American historical records dealing with the Polish-German border after World War II. The establishment of the Polish-German border along the Oder-Neisse line was one of the most widely debated topics in Germany’s post-war history. The article reviews the opinions of British and American historians. It analyzes different periods in the development of both histographies relating to the Polish western border, and discusses the main and key factors that had led to the evolution of the definition of the Oder-Neisse line as the Polish-German border.

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Kaviaka, I. (2019). Analysis of the Oder–Neisse line status in British and American historiography (1945–1990). Echa Przeszłości, (XX/1). https://doi.org/10.31648/ep.4843

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