The problem of the development of the historical and cultural heritage of the Returned Lands (Poland) on the pages of the Osadnik magazine: the experience of content analysis

After the Second World War the former eastern provinces of Germany, called the Recovered Territories, were joined to Poland. The purpose of the study is to identify the main approaches to the development of the historical and cultural heritage of new territories, presented on the pages of the Polish magazine “Osadnik” (1946–1948), using the methods of computerized text analysis. It is concluded that two interrelated tendencies were the main ones in the policy of the state – the removal from the cultural landscape German features and the return of its Polish appearance.