| Titre | Le droit d'option nationale des citoyens polonais établis en France, nés à l'est du Bug : les positions méconnues du Gouvernement provisoire de la République française d'après les archives du Quai d'Orsay (octobre 1944 - février 1946) | |
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| Auteur | Adolphe Lesur | |
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Revue | Revue des Etudes Slaves |
| Numéro | Vol. 75, no 2, 2004 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | La Pologne dans la deuxième guerre mondiale : archives, témoignages, oublis, sous la direction de Céline Gervais-Francelle Documents |
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| Page | 321-332 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The unrecognized position of the provisional government of the french republic about the Polish citizens born east of the bug, living in France after WW2, and their Right to Choose Statuts (Archives, Oct.1944 - Feb. 1946)
At the end of WW2 and ail its changes (new frontiers, deportations, prisoners' camps) problems with repatriation and national identity came up. The new Polish-Soviet border (Potsdam treaty) included the eastern territories which had belonged to Poland before 1939, and confirmed the Soviet occupation as well as Stalin 's authoritarian mesures to sovieticize the inhabitants. These decisions conferred a kind of legitimity to the Soviet delegations sent to France after the liberation in order to repatriate, sometimes by force, Poles living in France but native of these territories.
How did France react faced with these problems? As it is not always known, France was opposed to the Soviet doings. This is proved by the Foreign Office' s archives from fall 1944 to spring 1946, thus before February 12 1946, date of the UNO resolution defending the rights of displaced people. 4,340 documents have been analysed which show that France acknowledged the rights to chose its nationality, and was opposed to forced repatriation. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/slave_0080-2557_2004_num_75_2_6898 |
