Warmia i Mazury jako palimpsest, czyli o oswajaniu poniemieckiej przestrzeni po drugiej wojnie światowej
Warmia and Masuria as a palimpsest adapting post-German land to Polish needs after the Second World War

Summary/Abstract: Palimpsest might be used for naming both the land (Warmia and Masuria) and the time period (after the Second World War). It was then that the land was once again “redesigned” with new symbols, names, new architecture with no sign of previous Prussian details and new traditions, connected strongly only to Polish history. After the Germans fled or were deported, new habitants of the region were trying to adapt places of the alien culture to their needs: evangelic churches were transformed into catholic ones, German monuments were destroyed, road signs in German were replaced with ones in Polish, Warmia and Masuria natives were harassed for speaking German language. This article is about destructions of war, government issued orders to de-Germanize the land, quarrels over city designs, adapting monuments to social needs and making use of German palaces and castles.

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