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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Poland_Uprising_(1848)
>The Jewish minority in the province was exploited by Prussians to gain support for its policies. By granting Jews rights and abolishing old limitations, the Prussians hoped they could integrate the Jewish population into German society, and gain a counterweight to the Polish presence. As a result, many Jews saw in Prussia a free, liberal state, and were opposed to Polish independence movement.
>In the end of the 1840s about 60 percent of the population of the Duchy were Polish, 34 percent German and 6 percent Jewish.:149–172 Out of the administrative districts, Poles had a majority in 18, while Germans had a majority in 6, out which 4 were in the western part and 2 in the northern part.
>The Committee represented various political orientations and social classes, in order to achieve a coalition character. Its overall character was liberal-democratic, and among land-owners and intellectualists it included a Polish peasant Jan Palacz. The Polish Committee restricted its membership to Poles and demands from Germans and Jews to be represented in the Polish Committee were not accepted
>The atmosphere among the Germans and a portion of the Jewish population began to change diametrically. A German National Committee was founded [...]. Nationalist and even chauvinist voices could be heard in Germany demanding incorporation of the whole Greater Poland into the German Confederation. Encroachments against Jews caused a further support of the German Committee by the Jewish population
>Additionally, German liberals turned against Poles, demanding "protection of German area." Soon, German craftsmen, traders, and colonists in communities began to form committees and paramilitary units to defend their interests and to prevent local Poles from organizing, often joined by local Jews.
>"Willisen was exposed to personal insults or even danger from the infuriated German and Jewish mobs of Posen"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Poland_Uprising_(1848)
>The Jewish minority in the province was exploited by Prussians to gain support for its policies. By granting Jews rights and abolishing old limitations, the Prussians hoped they could integrate the Jewish population into German society, and gain a counterweight to the Polish presence. As a result, many Jews saw in Prussia a free, liberal state, and were opposed to Polish independence movement.
>In the end of the 1840s about 60 percent of the population of the Duchy were Polish, 34 percent German and 6 percent Jewish.:149–172 Out of the administrative districts, Poles had a majority in 18, while Germans had a majority in 6, out which 4 were in the western part and 2 in the northern part.
>The Committee represented various political orientations and social classes, in order to achieve a coalition character. Its overall character was liberal-democratic, and among land-owners and intellectualists it included a Polish peasant Jan Palacz. The Polish Committee restricted its membership to Poles and demands from Germans and Jews to be represented in the Polish Committee were not accepted
>The atmosphere among the Germans and a portion of the Jewish population began to change diametrically. A German National Committee was founded [...]. Nationalist and even chauvinist voices could be heard in Germany demanding incorporation of the whole Greater Poland into the German Confederation. Encroachments against Jews caused a further support of the German Committee by the Jewish population
>Additionally, German liberals turned against Poles, demanding "protection of German area." Soon, German craftsmen, traders, and colonists in communities began to form committees and paramilitary units to defend their interests and to prevent local Poles from organizing, often joined by local Jews.
>"Willisen was exposed to personal insults or even danger from the infuriated German and Jewish mobs of Posen"
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