Episode 133 - Germans in the Belfry

The mini-tour of Central Europe ends this week, and I take a look at Czechoslovakia and Poland. Nations that shared no small number of problems, and each in their own way failed to address them. For Czechoslovakia it was being unable to get their German minority to stop making eyes across the border, and for Poland it was being unable to stabilize their government enough to even begin making accommodations with their own ethnic minorities.    Bibliography for this episode:  Berend, Ivan Decades of Crisis: Central and Eastern Europe Before World War II University of California Press 1998 Crowhurst, Patrick A History of Czechoslovakia Between the Wars: From Versailles to Hitler's Invasion I.B. Tauris 2015 Davies, Norman God's Playground: A History of Poland, Volume II Columbia University Press 2005 Kochanski, Halik The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War Penguin Books Ltd 2012 Leslie, R.F. The History of Poland Since 1863 Cambridge University Press 1980 Chu, Winson The German Minority in Interwar Poland Cambridge University Press 2012 Prazmowska, Anita Poland: A Modern History Palgrave Macmillan 2010 Stachura, Peter D. Poland, 1918-1945: An Interpretive and Documentary History of the Second Republic Routledge 2004   Questions? Comments? Email me at [email protected]