Published: 2021-05-101

Educational contexts of migration. The case of East Prussia / Warmia and Mazury in 1945

Izabela Lewandowska
Echa Przeszłości
Section: ARTICLES
https://doi.org/10.31648/ep.6719

Abstract

Millions of people were forced to emigrate when World War II came to an end in 1945. Migration processes were particularly pronounced in East Prussia, the German territory that was partitioned between Poland and the USSR after the war. Germans fled from East Prussia, and their farms were settled by newcomers from central Poland and the Eastern Borderlands that had been ceded to the Soviet Union. This article discusses the narrative surrounding the wave of post-war migration in Polish and German academia, museums and informal education. An analysis of textbooks and academic scripts revealed that this topic has received broad coverage in the German educational system. Museum exhibitions focusing on emigration from East Prussia and the Eastern Borderlands were also examined, and the results of the analysis indicate that German museums displayed a greater interest in the topic.
In the last step, websites dedicated to migration issues were compared as a form of informal education. The comparison revealed a similar number of websites as well as similar levels of activity in Polish and German websites.

Keywords:

East Prussia, Warmia and Mazury, post-war migration, school and museum education, informal education

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Lewandowska, I. (2021). Educational contexts of migration. The case of East Prussia / Warmia and Mazury in 1945. Echa Przeszłości, (XXII/1), 268–285. https://doi.org/10.31648/ep.6719

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