Od Krzyżowej do Majdanu. Sąsiedztwo z Niemcami w polityce III RP

Abstract

The perspective of 25 years of the Polish Third Republic and achieving the goals assigned at the beginning of the transformation, connected with reorienting the Polish politics allows for looking at the Polish-German relations in a broader context of European dynamics and international relation in the world, although not without the living schematics, stereotypes and habits, able to determine thoughts and decisions. Relations with Germans have stopped being a subject of superpolitical unanimity, and in the perception of further generations the historical traumas will give place to the pragmatic everyday life. The material refers to the concepts of interest community, memory and generational changes which show the scale of the change made in the Polish-German relations, as well as try to set the perspective of implementing the experiences gathered so far.