March 1968 in Poland
A National Event and Transnational Movement
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
Only a few observers in Western Europe associate 1968 with Poland, although Polish students and workers were the first to rebel in Europe that year. They criticised Warsaw’s decrepit regime, which reacted with repression and set in motion an anti-Semitic campaign that drove 15,000 Polish Jews into emigration. But “1968 in Poland” is more than an anti-Jewish witches’ Sabbath. The protests of Poland’s youth have much in common with those in France and the United States, and all of these movements in turn influenced one another.
(Osteuropa 7/2008, pp. 71–86)