Kontakty Niemców, Kaszubów i Krajniaków z województwa koszalińskiego z Republiką Federalną Niemiec w latach 1958–1975
Contacts of the Germans, Kashubians, and Krajniaks from Koszalin Voivodship with Federal Republic of Germany in 1958–1975

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this article are relationships of the Germans, Kashubians, and Krajniaks from Koszalin Voivodship with West Germany after family reunification action was completed. After its completion, in the Koszalin Voivodship lived around 27 thousand people with more or less strong connections with German culture. The Germans and the autochthons stayed in mail contact with their families and acquaintances in the Federal Republic of Germany and received help in the form of parcels, including from the charity organizations and the landsmannschafts. Personal contacts were scarce, they amounted to visiting families in the Federal Republic of Germany and coming of the West Germany citizens to Poland. These contacts, particularly with the landsmannschafts, remained under strict control of the political police of the Polish People’s Republic. The authorities made every effort to block them, as they linked them to the revisionist activities: questioning the border on the Odra–Nysa Łużycka line. Besides, the contacts with the Federal Republic of Germany strengthened Kashubians’ and Krajniaks’ links with German language and culture, supported their tendency to emigrate, and maintained a sense of uncertainty and temporariness among the Polish immigrant population.

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