Polish literature and the Konzentrationslager. The beginning

In the article the author discusses the beginnings of Polish camp literature, more precisely: literature referring to the Nazi German concentration camps. For decades it was assumed that the earliest Polish texts of that type were published in 1945. It appears that the first works – reports and memo...

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Main Author: Arkadiusz Morawiec
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Lodz University Press 2017-09-01
Series:Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica
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Online Access:https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/polonica/article/view/2692
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Summary:In the article the author discusses the beginnings of Polish camp literature, more precisely: literature referring to the Nazi German concentration camps. For decades it was assumed that the earliest Polish texts of that type were published in 1945. It appears that the first works – reports and memoirs – were published before the outbreak of WWII. In this article, the author discusses them in the historical and historical-literary contexts (mainly in the context of German writings).
ISSN:1505-9057
2353-1908