https://doi.org/10.31261/WSN.2013.13.13
The settlement of the areas that were granted to Poland at the conference in Potsdam, was one of the most important tasks to be realized by the people’s authorities. Its realization was to consist in displacing the majority of German population to the areas east of the Oder and Lusatian Neisse rivers, and transporting there the displaced from Poland in favor of the Soviet Union as early as in 1945. The coordination of the displacement of people to the West was commanded by the National Repatriation Office, but many other organizations and institutions such as the National Information and Propaganda Office, Polish Western Union or Polish Red Cross joined the very action, too. As the issue of the activity of the National Repatriation Office field units was fairly often dealt with in the scientific literature, the analysis of the work of these and other places in the area of the Kraków voivodship is still hardly examined. The documents presented show difficulties the population of Biała Krakowska district that volunteered for a voluntary displacement to the West faced. Initial enthusiasm of volunteers, evoked by the activity of propaganda, decreased when it was made clear that the whole action was disorganized and the hardships of a few-day trip often went beyond the possibilities of the displaced. The reports from the transports prove chaos existing in the postwar reality and problems the Polish societies faced at that time.
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Vol. 5 No. 10 (2013)
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