<!doctype html public «-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en»> http-equiv=content-type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859–1"> The long shadow of history still hangs over relations between Germany and Poland. From their disputes about the Versailles borders to the German-Polish détente of the 1970s, historians have consistently helped shape relations between the two nations. History as Politics takes a long-term approach to look at the remarkable continuities and breaks that have been witnessed across a great diversity of political constellations.