The Masurian Institute (Polish: Instytut Mazurski ) in Olsztyn is a scientific research institution established in 1943 during World War II in the Nazi occupied Poland in Radość near Warsaw by the underground Masurian Union (Związek Mazurski), since 1945 the headquarters moved to Olsztyn , the main city of the Masurian movement.
5-837: Since 1948 the Masurian Institute is a scientific branch of the Western Institute in Poznań , and since 1953 part of the Polish Historical Society ( Polskie Towarzystwo Historyczne ). This article about an organisation in Poland is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a scientific organization is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Western Institute The Western Institute in Poznań (Polish: Instytut Zachodni , German West-Institut , French: L'Institut Occidental )
10-837: Is a scientific research society focusing on the Western provinces of Poland - Kresy Zachodnie (including Greater Poland , Silesia , Pomerania ), history, economy and politics of Germany , and the Polish-German relations in history and today. Established by professor Zygmunt Wojciechowski in 1944 in Warsaw , since 1945 based in Poznań . There were branches in Warsaw (1945–53), Wrocław (1948–49) and scientific posts in Kraków and Olsztyn . Full name: Instytut Zachodni. Instytut Naukowo-Badawczy im. Zygmunta Wojciechowskiego w Poznaniu The Western Institute
15-574: The premise of the research concept of the Western Institute in the first decades was the idea of an eternal German-Polish antagonism and thus the Institute's research, like its German counterpart, the Ostforschung , was based on explicit political objectives, active support of the territorial claims of the state and the distribution of research results by popular science. After the fall of communism,
20-437: The work of the institute: The work of the Institute carried out while Poland was a communist country has been criticised by American historian Richard Blanke as having anti-German bias Other criticism of work from this period have included allegations of propaganda and dullness while admitting that the Institute produced "some good works on political sciences and legal systems" German historian Gregor Thum has written that
25-683: Was founded in 1944 and became the flagship of the Polish Research of the West. The mission of the Institute is to conduct research projects within fields of political science, sociology, history, economics and law-especially focusing on Polish-German issues as well as European politics. It has been founded by a group of Poznań University professor in 1944, and incorporated with Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1992 Professor Władysław Bartoszewski , Polish survivor of Auschwitz , and renowned figure of Polish-Jewish and Polish-German reconciliation praised
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