Migration und deutsche Außenpolitik. Der deutsch-polnische Wanderungsvertrag von 1927 und die mitteleuropäischen Migrationsverhältnisse nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Oltmer, Jochen
Copyright Year	2005
Abstract	After World War I, German-Polish relations were characterized by a diplomatic "cold war" for a long time. Rieh in conflicts anyway, the relationship had escalated in a customs and economic war by the middle of the 1920s. Nevertheless, on 24 November 1927, the "German-Polish treaty concerning Polish farm labourers" was concluded. The present article explains why the bilateral agreement on migration was so essential for the two states, that, in a Situation characterized by severe foreign policy struggles, they agreed on the recruitment of Polish labourers for the German economy in an international treaty. The central aim of the German migration policy with regard to Poland in the Weimar Republic was to prevent the permanent immigration of Polish labourers into the Reich: Despite the significant decrease of the Polish minority in the Reich after World War I, owing to the cessions of the Versailles Treaty, the ethno-national horror scenario of a Polish infiltration, and consequently, the Polonization of the remaining Prussian East continued to be the basis for the political defense against Polish immigration, which was considered a danger to home security, to the economy and the labour market, and to German society and culture, especially in those parts of Prussia situated east of the Elbe. The German-Polish migration treaty was the result of prolonged negotiations in which the Germans were able to exert considerable pressure onto the Polish side. On the one hand, the agreement made it easier for Germany to recruit Polish farm labourers. On the other hand, after an interruption of 14 years, it determined for the first time the "force to return" for Polish farm labourers and thus required them to return to their mother country every winter. Since this agreement also included Polish migrant labourers who had been residents in Germany for years, the German government believed the German-Polish migration treaty to have rounded off its policy of preventing the Integration of the Poles.
Starting Page	399
Ending Page	424
Page Count	26
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Volume Number	54
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