Polish-German relations have been undergoing constant transformation for the last twenty years. The initial distrust, resulting from the historical developments of World War II, a semi-concluded border dispute and ideologically motivated conflicts, was replaced in the 1990s with politically conditioned normalization and reconciliation. This top-down process, aimed at the recognition of a peaceful and united Germany on the one hand and Poland’s membership of the European Union on the other, soon also affected Polish and German citizens. But the changes in mutual perception and attitudes towards each other were considered much more demanding than the political normalization inspired by the elite. Opis stanowi fragment Wstępu Publikacja w języku angielskim.