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Redemptive Recovery: The Ruhr, Reconstruction and Repatriation to Poland in the Early Post–Second World War Period

This article examines the early post–Second World War Polish state’s campaign to ‘repatriate’ German citizens of Polish descent from the Ruhr region and the consequent official and public contestations that erupted between Polish, British and German observers. Alternate interpretations of the Ruhr’s labour regime and its transformative ethno-social impact lay at the heart of these debates. For many Polish commentato…

picked 14 Aug 2026

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Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

historical multinational monarchist state in Eastern Europe (Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania)

picked 13 Aug 2026
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