Rękopis Orędzia biskupów polskich do biskupów niemieckich autorstwa abp. Bolesława Kominka
Archbishop Bolesław Kominek’s manuscript of the Address of the Polish Bishops to the German Bishops

Summary/Abstract: The finding of the manuscript of the conciliatory Address of the Polish Bishops to the German Bishops of 1965 allows to reconsider a number of issues related to the circumstances of the creation of this fundamental text for Polish-German relations. The aim of the article is to present a new source and compare it with the final version signed by the Polish bishops on 18 November 1965 and communicated to the German bishops. The research problem is to re-address issues related to the authorship of this text and the circumstances of its creation. The new source makes it possible to verify hypotheses about the time and place of the origin of the Address of the Polish Bishops to the German Bishops and determine to what extent the text was influenced by other persons alongside Archbishop Bolesław Kominek. The author performs a comparative analysis of the original and final text, and using methods of source analysis verifies the process of the creation of the Address.

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