Obwód głowy

The fruit of ten years' work, these pieces explore the Polish-German borderland, past and present. Some deal with today's neighbourliness: a new Opel plant in Gliwice and an old one in Bochum, a German businessman who helped Poland in the 1970s, married there and was ruined by his family. The historical ones cut deepest: two small sisters from Poznań taken from their parents for Lebensborn adoption, Mathi Schenk, a young Belgian sent to suppress the Warsaw Uprising and still haunted by it, and German women who killed their children before the Red Army arrived.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

257 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Poland, Germany

First published

2007 by Wydawnictwo Czarne

Author's age

49 when first published

ISBN

9788389755650 (original)