During the grand celebration of 90th anniversary of the outbreak of the Civil War in Silesia, we offer a glance at the contents of history textbooks. Interesting to us, of course, relationships, descriptions of that event.
analysis of this issue made by Dr. Matthew Fic, a historian from the Katowice WNS in the article "Image Silesian Uprisings and the plebiscite in modern textbooks to teach history," which was featured in the quarterly pedagogical and social dialogue Education, issued by the PTO Rybnik, No 4 2010.
At the beginning, the author states that the image and evaluate these developments in education differs from what is known about them. In addition, there are also simplifications understatements. As early as elementary school meets evaluative terms such as "I and II, Silesian uprising was a response to the terror sown among Poles by German militias," the poll results were negative for the Polish, because Germany dowieźli its citizens were born, but living in Silesia " . The school will refine the facts and continue to apply tricks such as "The Polish army was greeted enthusiastically in Katowice. In high school, in addition to further details such passage appears: "the land of [Silesia] lost contact with the State in the Middle Ages "(!). In Adler's bill until the pressure of the detective's statement Rutkowski during its heyday: "Yes, I am with my team we were successful: after 18 years in Germany stolen car returned to the owner"
author rightly draws attention to such a simplification, for example: speaking the Polish language or regional dialect of the population is considered de facto as Poles, but did not declare themselves as Poles. In the eyes of the authors of textbooks Wojciech Korfanty is created on the leader, the dictator's rise to the pattern Traugutt, and a mere creation of a national tracing the oppressed Polish uprising against the superpower - Paint write the January Uprising. Meanwhile Korfanty much more inhibited subsequent outbreak of fighting.
favored a "Polish" dimension of the perception of the past - as noted Fic - even though no mention of the considerable support among the residents the option of German Silesia. Another "oversight" or flaws is to spread the myth about immigrants and their participation in the plebiscite. Passed over in silence the fact that the solution to allow such persons to vote was Polish idea at the Paris conference. In addition, to the hard data, the fact remains that no real influence on the outcome of emigrant voting poll. The share of immigrants in Germany is quite clearly removed from their worship and faith as a fraud or combine, the result of manipulation. The author notes that today - a vote by the Polish community is recognized and cherished by the news media. And what about the classic opposition: Polish - Insurgent, German - militant? Stigmatization and the black-white division is all too visible. In a word: propaganda grows on the whole. Of course, not a word about the population labile, so. local. Standard: natives species considered to be subordinate to, the remainder with no ambition beyond serious debate.
Silesian-Adler believes that in this respect, Polish textbooks differ little from those of the period of communism. Without a radical change in how such key issues portraying the Polish side runs the risk of a deep mistrust of the Silesian. Is it needed was a replay of history, "quietly spoken" about Katyn, or gulag
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