The first source I used to investigate the question was the book “German Minorities and the Third Reich: Ethnic Germans of East Central Europe between the Wars” published by Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc. in 1980 in New York. Due to its publication year, it is a secondary, public source. Its target audience are historians studying the treatment of ethnic Germans between the wars. The purpose is to in form the reader about the situation of the German minorities in Poland because it is a secondary source. Furthermore it points out their living conditions and Poland's minority policies. The value for a historian is that it shows the development of the ethnic German's situation in Poland from a neutral perspective, due to the fact that it is a
