Образът на Полша и поляците в България преди Втората световна война и през военните години
The Image of Poland and the Poles in Bulgaria before and during World War II

Summary/Abstract: The topic of Bulgarian-Polish relations in the interwar period and during World War II and of the image of Poland and the Poles in Bulgarian society is developed almost entirely on the basis of Bulgarian archival sources from the period. Regardless of the proximity of origin and geographical location of the two countries, they had a very different historical destiny. This underlies the frequent divergence in their foreign policy orientation, which is reflected both on the image of the Poles in Bulgaria and on the image of the Bulgarians in Poland. The diplomatic documents show that the interest and sympathy towards the Poles in Bulgaria were much larger than those expressed in Poland towards the Bulgarians. Much credit for this goes to the Polish diplomatic representative in Sofia in the 1930s Adam Tarnowski. Only at the beginning of WWII the Poles became people seeking help in Bulgaria, which was, however, offered to them more readily by the people, rather than by the authorities which leaned towards the Third Reich.

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