Galicia miserabilis und/oder Galicia felix? (in German)

However, this longing overshadowed another image of Eastern Galicia — Galicia miserabilis, the image of backwardness, poverty, and hopelessness of this borderland, this liminal space somewhere “on the edge,” where numerous atrocities were committed in the 20th century. These two images, marked by this dichotomy, have become paradigmatic, especially during the time when this territory disappeared from the maps of Europe and became an object of research.