Walka o duszę Prus – od Krzyżaków do plebiscytu
The fight for the soul of Prussia – from the Teutonic Knights to the plebiscite

Based on the script of a German propaganda film against Polonization East Prussia from 1922

Author(s): Anna Damięcka-Wójcik
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Teutonic Knights; Teutonic Order; Rota; Grunwald; Tannenberg; Bollwerk
Summary/Abstract: The text analyses the archive script of a German propaganda film against the Polonization of East Prussia. The film from the 1920s documents two existing historical narratives: Polish and German. Although in some places they are contradictory, they form a complementary picture of the Polish-German relations as a whole. Both in Polish and German historiography the interpretation of historical facts was subordinated to historical policy. The text analyses German and Slavonic founding myths of Prussia, the white and black legend of the Teutonic Knights and its revival in the 20th century, the examples of historical heroizaition, the omission of indigenous population in the historiography of both countries and Europe in the 1920s propaganda.

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