Even the stones spoke German
Brendan Simms: Wrotizla, Breslau, Wroclaw, 28 November 2002
Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City
by Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse.
Cape, 585 pp., £20, April 2002,0 224 06243 3 Show More
by Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse.
Cape, 585 pp., £20, April 2002,
“... Travellers to the western Polish city of Wroclaw in the 1980s could still encounter Germans who had lived there before the Second World War. One of those who escaped the mass exodus of the German population in 1945 was a man named Schiller, who had married a Polish woman and blended into local society without much comment. He seemed happy enough when I met him; and his Polish neighbours appeared remarkably incurious about and benevolent towards one of the last living links with their earlier history ... ”