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    Published: 2022-10-30
    Vol. 39 No. 3 (2018)

    The Gniezno cathedral: Polish-German struggle for symbols in the time of the partitions, interwar period and the German nazi occupation

    Michał Przemysław Sołomieniuk
    Seminare. Learned Investigations
    Section: History
    https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.2018.3.13

    Abstract

    In the time of partitions of Poland and in the interwar period the national and religious symbolic significance of Gniezno was increasing. This symbolism focused on its cathedral and was expressed in tables and monuments dedicated to important persons and events, in publications on history, in common prayer of the Polish Catholics. In the Prussian times the civil authorities strove to limit the symbolic role of Gniezno. During the World War II the Germans closed the cathedral for the Polish people and later excluded from it any religious service. Their work of destruction has been almost completed by the Red Army who bombarded the church two days after the “liberation”.

    Keywords:

    Gniezno, Gniezno cathedral, symbolism, German occupation

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    Sołomieniuk , M. P. (2022). The Gniezno cathedral: Polish-German struggle for symbols in the time of the partitions, interwar period and the German nazi occupation . Seminare. Learned Investigations, 39(3), 169–181. https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.2018.3.13

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