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: 

1. Berend, Ivan Decades of Crisis: Central and Eastern Europe Before World War II University of California Press 1998
2. Crowhurst, Patrick A History of Czechoslovakia Between the Wars: From Versailles to Hitler's Invasion I.B. Tauris 2015
3. Davies, Norman God's Playground: A History of Poland, Volume II Columbia University Press 2005
4. Kochanski, Halik The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War Penguin Books Ltd 2012
5. Leslie, R.F. The History of Poland Since 1863 Cambridge University Press 1980
6. Chu, Winson The German Minority in Interwar Poland Cambridge University Press 2012
7. Prazmowska, Anita Poland: A Modern History Palgrave Macmillan 2010
8. Stachura, Peter D. Poland, 1918-1945: An Interpretive and Documentary History of the Second Republic Routledge 2004

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