National identity and Weimar Germany
Subtitle: Upper Silesia and the eastern border, 1918-1922
By: T. Hunt Tooley.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Silesia, Upper (Poland and Czech Republic) -- History -- Partition, 1919-1922; Germany -- Boundaries -- Poland; Poland -- Boundaries -- Germany
Description: The border changes following World War I put enormous pressure on both the central German authorities and on social and political relations in the borderlands.  Coal-rich Upper Silesia was one such area of change, one of the regions designated by the Allies for a border plebiscite.  This book is an in-depth examination of the Upper Silesian plebiscite and the ways in which the new Weimar Republic and the people of the borderland chose to react in this postwar crisis.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-310) and index.