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    The OderNeisse line (German: Oder-Neiße-Grenze, Polish: granica na Odrze i Nysie Łużyckiej) is an unofficial term for the modern border between Germany...
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    territories east of the current eastern border of Germany, i.e., the OderNeisse line, which historically had been considered German and which were annexed...
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    river has partially demarcated the German-Polish border (along the OderNeisse line). The German population east of the river was expelled from Poland...
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    kilometres (116 mi) of the border between Poland and Germany as part of the OderNeisse line. The river ultimately flows into the Szczecin Lagoon north of Szczecin...
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    The Battle of the OderNeisse is the German name for the initial (operational) phase of one of the last two strategic offensives conducted by the Red...
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    in 1939, the population of all territories between the Oder-Neisse Line and the Curzon Line—all territories which formed post-1945 Poland—totalled 32...
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    Germany) and Polish premier Józef Cyrankiewicz. It recognized the Oder-Neisse line implemented by the 1945 Potsdam Agreement as the border between the...
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    Nazi Germany, the OderNeisse line became its western border, resulting in gaining the Recovered Territories from Germany. The Curzon Line became its eastern...
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    the rival German Democratic Republic as an East-German state and the OderNeisse line as a post-war frontier to Poland. Under Adenauer, West Germany joined...
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    territory east of the OderNeisse line. In the Treaty of Warsaw (1970; ratified in 1972) West Germany recognized the OderNeisse line as Poland's western...
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    polsko-niemiecka) is the state border between Poland and Germany, mostly along the OderNeisse line, with a total length of 467 km (290 mi). It stretches from the Baltic...
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  • Agreement of 1945, the Allies of World War II had defined the OderNeisse line as the line of demarcation between the Soviet occupation zone in Germany...
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    would be established at some particular place." Despite this, the Oder-Neisse Line was set as Poland's provisional (and therefore theoretically subject...
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    Agreement established the Soviet-occupied zone, bounded on the east by the Oder-Neiße line. The GDR was dominated by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED)...
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    provinces and smaller states. Former German territory that lay east of the Oder-Neisse line fell under either Polish or Soviet administration but attempts were...
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    expellees under German Federal Expellee Law. The German population east of Oder-Neisse was estimated at over 11 million in early 1945. The first mass flight...
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    on buildings. The post-war border between Germany and Poland (the OderNeisse line) was recognized by East Germany in 1950 and by West Germany in 1970...
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    border, with the country de facto losing its territories east of the OderNeisse line to Poland and the Soviet Union (most for Poland because the eastern...
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    payments. The provisional western border would be the OderNeisse line, defined by the Oder and Neisse Rivers. Silesia, Pomerania, the southern part of East...
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    giving Poland and the Soviet Union all regions of Germany east of the OderNeisse line (eastern parts of Pomerania, Neumark, Posen-West Prussia, East-Prussia...
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    responsibility for the middle portion of Germany. Eastern Germany beyond the Oder-Neisse line, equal in territory to the SBZ, was to be annexed by Poland and its...
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    post-war Poland. Poland's post-war borders were moved west to the Oder-Neisse line, deep into former German territory and within 80 kilometers of Berlin...
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    Militäradministration in Deutschland, SMAD) from the Oder and Neisse rivers to the demarcation line. The Soviet occupation zone included the former states...
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    Soviet-installed communist regime. The small Lusatian strip west of the OderNeisse line, which had belonged to Silesia since 1815, became part of East Germany...
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  • committed themselves to nonviolence and accepted the existing border—the Oder-Neisse line, imposed on Germany by the Soviet Union in 1945 following the end of...
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    already agreed amongst themselves that the territories east of the Oder-Neisse line must be transferred to Poland and the Soviet Union in any peace agreement...
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    Pomeranian Voivodeship (Zachodniopomorskie) in Poland, stretching from the OderNeisse line to the Wieprza river, encompassing most of historical Pomerania in...
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    under the Oder-Neisse line imposed in 1945 than the Reich had lost to Poland under the Treaty of Versailles, and yet the Oder-Neisse line did not cause...
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    locality of Wiesenau) formed part of the Weststernberg district. The Oder-Neisse line delimiting Germany and Poland split several localities of the region...
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    Line, provisions to be addressed in an eventual Final Treaty ending World War II, and the annexation of parts of Germany east of the Oder-Neisse line...
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