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Where is Poland?
AboutPL
  • Intro
  • Chapter 1 Where is Poland
  • Chapter 2 A Nation Without a Country
  • Chapter 3 Literature and Censorship
  • Chapter 4 Outside Poland
  • Chapter 5 The Ambassadors
  • Chapter 6 Women and Emancipation
  • Chapter 7 Who was Polish
  • Chapter 8 Polish Imaginarium
  • Chapter 9 Road to Independence
Chapter 1

Can a nation survive without a state?

Well, divided between three invading powers, Poland is literally nowhere. And yet there are Poles. After crossing the border at Granica, Georg Brandes goes to the capital of this absent country – to Warsaw.