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    Poles attending it throughout the centuries. Poles settled in present-day Germany more numerously during the 18th-century Polish-Saxon union e.g. in Dresden...
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    of German nationalism in mid 19th century, Poles faced increasing discrimination on formerly Polish lands. The first mass deportation of 30,000 Poles from...
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    Union of Poles in Germany (Polish: Związek Polaków w Niemczech, ‹See Tfd›German: Bund der Polen in Deutschland e.V.) is an organisation of the Polish...
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    Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany during World War II was a massive operation consisting of the forced resettlement of over 1.7 million Poles from the territories...
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    primarily young Poles took up jobs abroad. Most Poles live in Europe, the Americas, and Australia, but a few Poles have settled in smaller numbers in Asia, Africa...
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  • between Germans and Poles also contributed much to the Germanisation of ethnic Poles in the Ruhr area. During the First World War, the German Empire planned...
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    nation. Until World War II the Poles were recognized as one of the national minorities. In 1924 the Union of Poles in Germany had initiated cooperation between...
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    is well-attested.[citation needed] Nazi Germany killed between 1.8 to 2.7 million ethnic Poles, 140,000 Poles were deported to Auschwitz where at least...
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  • German Pole may refer to: German Pole (politician), member of Parliament for Derbyshire in 1656 German minority in Poland Polish minority in Germany German–Polish...
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    overhead on utility poles as an inexpensive way to keep them insulated from the ground and out of the way of people and vehicles. Utility poles can be made of...
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    Polish people (redirect from Ethnic Poles)
    demonym) Pole and Hungarian brothers be Poles in France Poles in Germany Poles in Latvia Poles in Lithuania Poles in Norway Poles in Romania Poles in the Soviet...
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    In court Poles had no legal protection. Public whipping, beatings of Poles were allowed by German authorities. Public beatings of Poles by Germans were...
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    million Poles, including women and children, were deported to slave labour, and Poles accounted for 60% of all foreign slave workers in Germany. In March...
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    famous Polish Catholic Priest, and was the President of the Union of Poles in Germany from 1931 to 1939. He served as the Parson of the Zakrzewo Parish from...
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    Ruhrpolen (redirect from Ruhr Poles)
    Ruhrpolen (German: [ˈʁuːɐ̯ˌpoːlən], “Ruhr Poles”) is a German umbrella term for the Polish migrants and their descendants who lived in the Ruhr area in western...
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    Jewish Poles. These mass killings were enacted by the Nazis with further plans that were justified by their racial theories, which regarded Poles and other...
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    Selbstschutz. When the German occupation of Poland began, the Selbstschutz took an active part in Nazi crimes against ethnic Poles. Due to their pre-war...
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    religious opponents. Nazi policies in German-occupied countries resulted in the deaths of an estimated 2.7 million Poles, 1.3 million Ukrainians, 1 million...
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    German language was introduced. Frederick the Great hoped to replace Poles with Germans, placing Germans in most of the administration as well. Poles...
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    Infobox civilian attack is being considered for merging. › The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (Polish: rzeź wołyńsko-galicyjska, lit. 'Volhynian-Galician...
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    Rodło (category Scouting and Guiding in Poland)
    in Germany, Nazi emblems were soon nationalized. The swastika became national emblem of the Third Reich and Poles from the Union of Poles in Germany could...
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  • Look up pole or Pole in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pole or poles may refer to: Poles (people), another term for Polish people, from the country of...
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    not enlist ethnic Poles on racist grounds. When Germany began losing the war in 1943, the Wehrmacht forcibly conscripted ethnic Poles, who were commanded...
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    (IPN) estimates total deaths under the German occupation at 5,470,000 to 5,670,000 Jews and Poles, 2,770,000 Poles, 2.7 to 2.9 million Polish Jews According...
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    Poles) 4 September, Katowice massacre (about 80 Poles) 4 September, Złoczew massacre (200 Poles and Jews) 4 September, Pasternik massacre (29 Poles)...
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  • Expulsion of Poles can refer to: Expulsion of Poles by Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany (1939–1944) Polish population...
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    Sorbs (category Ethnic groups in Germany)
    of Poles in Germany in 1924. Sorbian journalist, poet and activist Jan Skala was a member of the press headquarters of the Union of Poles in Germany, and...
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    Polish prisoners of war, and in less than two years, deported up to 1.5 million ethnic Poles to Siberia including Poles and Polish Jews from West Belarus...
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    Prussian deportations (category Antisemitism in Germany)
    the Prussian expulsions of Poles (Polish: rugi pruskie; ‹See Tfd›German: Polenausweisungen), were the mass expulsions of Poles from Prussia between 1885...
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    all Poles ("inferior people") were to be exterminated. The Soviets invaded Poland on 17 September. The campaign ended on 6 October with Germany and the...
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