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Where is Poland?
Chapter 1

Poland as nowhere


In February 1885 Georg Brandes takes a train from Vienna to Warsaw, Poland that is nowhere. The train stops at the small frontier station of Granica. Close is the so-called Triangle of the Three Emperors, a place where the borders of three empires meet, Russia, Germany and Austria. But only a hundred years ago this border wasn’t even here.