<!doctype html public «-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en»> http-equiv=content-type> After 1945, traveling to Poland mean going to an unknown “Eastern Bloc” country. Corinna Felsch has collected an extensive number of private travel reports. Based on these sources, she examines the importance of the past in these travelers’ encounters with Poland. The study offers insight on personal perceptions of history and a new window to the history of German-Polish relations.