[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Richard Blanke

[Jerry Frank]

Excerpts from "Orphans of Versailles" are available on line through GOOGLE Books.  

Mr. Blanke is Professor of History at the University of Maine.
http://www.umaine.edu/history/faculty/blanke.htm


Jerry



----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Benert <benovich at imt.net>
Date: Monday, April 27, 2009 12:05 pm
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Richard Blanke
To: SGGEE Mail List <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>

> I've just accidentally run into a historian who seems to be 
> specializing in 
> the subject of Germans in eastern Europe, and in Poland in 
> particular.  Some 
> on the list may be interested.  One of his books deals with 
> Masurian Germans 
> who spoke Polish.  Another is called "Orphans of 
> Versailles.  The Germans in 
> Western Poland, 1918-1939."  If one goes to 
> www.worldcat.com, you can find a 
> list of his productions by doing a search under "Blanke, Richard."
> 
> Another thing he wrote may not appear there.  It's in a 
> book called, 
> "Germans and Eastern Europe.  Cultural Identities and 
> Cultural Differences," 
> (1999), edited by K. Bullivant and others.  The relevant 
> chapter by Blanke 
> is on pp. 37-56, "When Germans and Poles Lived Together."
> 
> I hope this will be of some interest for at least a few of us.
> 
> Dick B. 
>