Reflections Based on Archival Sources on the Role and Importance of the State Border in the Awareness of the Society of the Second Republic of Poland
Keywords:
state border, internal security, social awarenessAbstract
The presented article raises the issue of evaluating awareness among Polish society about the role and importance of the state border in the security system of the Second Republic of Poland in the context of the lessons learned from the partitions period. Discussing the problem of the protection of the Polish border by border services, he points to the typical problems faced by the newly established countries in Europe at that time, i.e. with delineating and marking the border in the field, the course of which line in the field soullessly divided arable fields, houses and industrial plants. It is also a problem of broken relations between families living in a given area for centuries, which were suddenly separated by a "new" borderline. The article presents the basic definitions of the concept of the state border that appeared at the turn of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century in the public space. The article also includes information on the length of the borders of the Second Republic of Poland and the size of individual sections of the border with its then neighbours.
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