The registered German minority in Poland (Polish: Mniejszość niemiecka w Polsce; German: Deutsche Minderheit in Polen) is a group of German people that inhabit...

an electoral committee in Poland which represents the German minority. Since 2008, its representative has been Ryszard Galla. In the 2023 Polish parliamentary...

were conducted in part according to an "enemies of the Reich list" prepared before the war by members of the German minority in Poland and printed ahead...

(from or to Poland) during and after World War II. Ethnic minorities remain in Poland, however, including some newly arrived or increased in number. Ethnic...

to German nationalism, promising to "liberate" the German minority still in the Corridor, as well as Danzig. The invasion was referred to by Germany as...

The Lithuanian minority in Poland (Lithuanian: Lenkijos lietuviai; Polish: Litwini w Polsce) consists of 8,000 people (according to the Polish census of...

The German diaspora (German: Deutschstämmige) consists of German people and their descendants who live outside of Germany. The term is used in particular...

to Polish diaspora in Germany. Germany–Poland relations German minority in Poland Union of Poles in Germany List of notable Germans of Polish origin Association...

resisting the Germans. They were aided by some regular German army units and "self-defense" forces composed of members of the German minority in Poland, the Volksdeutsche...

West and East Germany no longer learned the dialect, and the cultural gatherings were less and less frequented. A remaining German minority in Opole Voivodeship...

"border strip" to Germany, a policy earlier suggested by a letter to the German government by members of Poland's German minority, settled around Łódź...

After Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939, the Wehrmacht, or German armed forces, recruited members from Poland's 2.2% ethnic-German minority, but did...

Consulate of Germany in Opole History of Poland Poles in Germany German minority in Poland German–Polish Border Treaty, 1990; now in effect German–Polish declaration...

with German-speaking minorities, such as Hungary, Poland, Imperial Russia, etc., demonstrates the extent and duration of German-speaking settlements....

issue of German and Polish rights was a point of dispute as Polish rights in Germany remained unprotected, unlike the German minority in Poland. Like other...

communities in Poland use Polish Sign Language, which belongs to the German family of Sign Languages. Languages other than Polish that have existed in the region...

UAM) in Poznań, and the Western Institute. He specializes in research on national and ethnic minorities, with special focus on the German minority in Poland...

the end of World War II. Following the German–Soviet non-aggression pact, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany on 1 September 1939 and by the Soviet Union...

Polish minority were annexed to Poland and the Soviet Union, while almost all of the native German populations (formerly the ethnic majority) in these...

expulsion of Germans from Poland was the largest of a series of flights and expulsions of Germans in Europe during and after World War II. The German population...

1884–1990) Poland (national minority language; also auxiliary language in 31 communes) Romania (national minority language) Russia (minority language in the...

German minority "fit for action". In the interwar period, the German minority organizations in Poland included Jungdeutsche Partei (Young German Party)...

Schleswig Germans) Hungary (see also: Germans of Hungary) Poland (see also German minority in Poland; German is an auxiliary and co-official language in 31 communes)...

Opole (Polish: [ɔˈpɔlɛ] ; Silesian: Ôpole; Silesian German: Uppeln) is a city located in southern Poland on the Oder River and the historical capital of Upper...

were increasingly German and German-speaking. At the synod of Łęczyca in 1285, Archbishop Jakub Świnka of Gniezno warned that Poland might become a "new...

Volksverband in Polen (DVV), or the German People's Union in Poland, was a Nazi German extreme right-wing political party founded in 1924 in central Poland by members...

territorial revisionism, Germany emphasized the presence of a German minority in Poland. In 1924, the situation in Germany improved, both internally...

historical ethnic minorities of Romania from the modern period onwards. Throughout the interwar period, the total number of ethnic Germans in this country...

the German minority in Poland, were active in a Nazi campaign of genocide against Poles during World War II. English translations include German Colonization...

the German authorities; Blue Police officers, who were required to serve; compulsory "labor service" workers; members of Poland's German minority; and...