Nearly 700 pages is strongly dependent on the Federal Agency for political Czech Education published Country Report Poland , the editors Dieter Bingen and Krzysztof Ruchniewicz on Thursday in the representation of Rhineland-Palatinate presented in Berlin. Had one on the many caricatures, which often says more than words, waived, he would have become even thicker, Dieter Bingen noted in jest. Bingen also laid emphasis on the finding that slightly more than half of the authors, the contributions to Poland's history, politics, economy, society, Education, culture and the role of the country in the international system composed, came from Poland itself. Associate Editor Ruchniewicz spun the idea further - the interested reader may wonder what the Polish authors was important, as they themselves would see their country. An answer to this question is the historical debates that make the German-Polish relationship again and again for noisy irritations, have for the self-image of Poles far from the value in order to dedicate about the topic of "flight and expulsion" a separate chapter. Instead, this issue appears in different contexts throughout the book.
While the editors emphasis was laid together in the national report on particular authors, which is given in Germany has not the same attention as in the neighboring country, was allowed at the book presentation of a familiar face not miss the Polish-German dialogue. Adam Krzeminski, who remembered "dusted off" in recent years with the Federal Agency so many book to have, was pleased at first the fact that the collection at the "end of the Gutenberg period," but could appear in an edition of just 10,000 copies. While the editors of the moderator's question, because for the entry in the Tome on the contribution at best own, would not answer quite moved, Krzeminski position clear: professionals should begin by reading from the back. The article by Kai-Olaf Lang under the title from troublemaker to design power - declare Poland in the European Union many current problems. Krzeminski also recommended the chapter to the economy - again, because the issue as a "non-expert does not look", but also to rectify old stereotypes of the "Polish economy." A little warm words of historian Krzemiński was calculated for the historical part and then voted in a general tenor of the event for the Generation of today's 30 - to 40-year-old was the only third-rate military history.
