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Sources and bibliography
Documents, articles and studies used on this website. Links lead to the source material.
We distinguish contemporary documents, modern scholarship and later interpretations. Source titles are preserved in their original language.
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Allied and Associated Powers; US Department of State editors · Office of the Historian, US Department of State · 1919 (treaty); 1947 (FRUS volume)
The treaty establishes the plebiscite rules. Later editorial notes must be distinguished from the 1919 text.
FRUS, Paris Peace Conference, vol. XIII, pp. 212–219
Accessed: 2026-10-05
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Mirosław Węcki · IPN / Przystanek Historia · 2020-08-16
An IPN historian’s synthesis. Last clashes are distinguished from the order to stop fighting. Casualty estimates are not a complete register.
Accessed: 2026-10-05
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Sebastian Rosenbaum · IPN / Przystanek Historia · 2021
Analysis of the strike and newspaper accounts; useful for testing single-cause narratives.
Accessed: 2026-10-05
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Mirosław Węcki · Instytut Pamięci Narodowej · 2025-08-19
The account includes actions from 18 August and final fighting through 28 August; the conventional 19/20–25 August range does not cover every action.
Accessed: 2026-10-05
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Mirosław Węcki · IPN / Przystanek Historia · 2021-05-03
Detailed military and political chronology. Plebiscite totals differ from another IPN article; datasets are not combined.
Accessed: 2026-10-05
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Institute of National Remembrance · 2022-01-11
Source of the selected totals: 479365 and 707393. Published percentages use differing denominators; the chart is calculated from the two options.
Accessed: 2026-10-05
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Renata Skoczek · Institute of National Remembrance · 2021-05-07
Partition proposals are not the final border. Korfanty’s statements represent a political position.
Accessed: 2026-10-05
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University editorial interview with Maciej Fic · University of Silesia · 2021-03-19
Interview with a researcher. Household language is not equated with nationality. Industrial counts concern specific categories, not the whole economy.
Accessed: 2026-10-05
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Andrzej Michalczyk · UCL Discovery (research repository)
Author confirmed on PDF p. 49; pp. 50–51 used on language, religion and regional identification.
Accessed: 2026-10-05
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Arnulf Scriba · Deutsches Historisches Museum / LeMO · 2014-09-02
German museum narrative. Its Annaberg date of 23 May differs from 21 May in the detailed IPN chronology. Assessments of partition are interpretations.
Accessed: 2026-10-05
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Instytut Pamięci Narodowej · 2021
Educational material. Page 2 used for ceasefire, partition and transfer. Access to the PDF does not establish rights to its images.
Accessed: 2026-10-05
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Joanna Sowa; Przemysław Snoch · Archiwum Państwowe w Katowicach · 2021
Exhibition based on archival holdings; documents competition, authorship, material, dates and symbolism.
AP Katowice, fonds 12/274 (exhibition reference; no invented item number)
Accessed: 2026-10-05
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Rada Miasta Katowice · BIP Katowice · 2024-06-20
Documents the official name and heritage listing A/1348/24, dated 19 February 2024.
IV/47/24
Accessed: 2026-10-05
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Sebastian Rosenbaum; Mirosław Węcki · Instytut Pamięci Narodowej · 2026-04-20
Verification of background, education and career. Excerpt links to full article.
Accessed: 2026-10-05
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Witold Iwaszkiewicz · Instytut Pamięci Narodowej · 2021
Institutional biography; basic dates and command role consulted.
Accessed: 2026-10-05
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Archiwa Państwowe
Institution confirms the official Find an Insurgent database. No open export licence established; no records copied.
Accessed: 2026-10-05
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Archiwum Państwowe w Katowicach
Links to official digital holdings. Access does not automatically establish a reuse licence.
Accessed: 2026-10-05
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Edward Długajczyk · Archiwum Państwowe w Katowicach / Szkice Archiwalno-Historyczne nr 20 · 2023
Research programme points to the need for identification by name; used as a research lead, not as a completed casualty count.
DOI 10.61516/szkice20_2023/dlugajczyk
Accessed: 2026-10-05
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Sebastian Rosenbaum; Mirosław Węcki · IPN / Przystanek Historia · 2022-08-16
Full biography. Dates and roles compared with the uprising chronology; political assessments are the authors’ interpretations.
Accessed: 2026-10-05
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GeoNames contributors · GeoNames · 2026-10-05 (download)
Modern WGS84 settlement points. They do not establish historical borders or exact battle positions.
PL.zip; individual IDs in place records
Accessed: 2026-10-05
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Instytut Pamięci Narodowej / Biogramy
Institutional biography used to verify the name and command succession. Its commemorative value judgments are not adopted.
Accessed: 2026-10-05
If a source is unavailable, search its title and archival reference with the named institution. A missing document is not replaced with a reconstruction.