Polityka Komisariatu Naczelnej Rady Ludowej wobec Niemiec w czasie powstania wielkopolskiego
Politics of the People’s Supreme Council Commissariat for Germany during the Greater Poland Uprising

Summary/Abstract: From November 1918 to February 1919 in the Greater Poland played out the events that led to the liberation of Polish territories annexed by Prussia. At that time, the supreme authority in Po-znan – the People’s Supreme Council Commissariat, several times talks with representatives of the German state to peacefully resolve the conflict. In November 1918, they were talking about wi-thdrawing army from the Greater Poland, which did not originate from this province and eliminate the anti-Polish regulations concerning on education. Another meeting with the Germans took place shortly after the Greater Poland Uprising. Then the two sides agreed to consider all possibilities of resolving the dispute. The next talks took place already during the Greater Poland Uprising. The aim of negotiations in Inowroclaw and Bydgoszcz was primarily an attempt to end rapidly expan-ding armed struggle. Following the acquisition of full authority by the PSC Commissariat in the Greater Polnd, policy between the sides of the conflict has significantly intensified. In order to cla-rify all urgent, contentious issues, in early February1919 decided to convene another conference. This time the venue was chosen in Berlin. All Polish-German interviews made during this perioddid not reach any compromise. Argu-ments and claims of both sides were each time so contradictory and mutually exclusive, that could not lead to the conclusion of any truce. Given thissituation, this conflict must be resolved by the Western states that, regardless of the PSC Commissariat and the German state, in early February 1919 began deliberations on the new terms to extend the system with the Germans.

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