The history of Germans in Poland dates back almost a millennium. Poland was at one point Europe's most multiethnic state during the medieval period. Its...
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Many Germans died in labor camps such as the Zgoda labour camp and the Potulice camp. Of those Germans who remained within the new borders of Poland, many...
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e. 6.2% of all Germans in Poland, though only 0.31% of the local population. Towns with particularly high concentrations of German speakers in Opole Voivodeship...
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the policy which the Germans implemented during their occupation of Poland, this sentiment was reflected in the expulsion of Germans from the territories...
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the Germans in northern Slovakia. As the Wehrmacht advanced, Polish forces withdrew from their forward bases of operation close to the Germany–Poland border...
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history of Poland from 1939 to 1945 encompasses primarily the period from the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to the end of World...
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The history of the Jews in Poland dates back at least 1,000 years. For centuries, Poland was home to the largest and most significant Ashkenazi Jewish...
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ГОЛЕНДРЫ) (in Russian) Accor History of Germans from Russia. Who are the Germans from Russia? Bassler, Gerhard P. (22 January 2018). "German Canadians"...
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The history of interwar Poland comprises the period from the revival of the independent Polish state in 1918, until the Invasion of Poland from the West...
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Germans still remained in Poland. According to the West German Schieder commission of 1953, 5,650,000 Germans remained in what would become Poland's new...
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were deliberately devastated by the Germans during their retreat from the Vistula. Treated with disdain by Germans, Russians, and the Austro-Hungarians...
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and Germans. This contributed to the national tensions among the Poles, Germans, and Jews. At this time the Jewish population in Prussian Poland tended...
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6.7 million Germans living in "west-shifted" Poland, mostly within previously German lands, and the 3 million in German-settled regions of Czechoslovakia...
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number of males grew, and in 1960, the ratio was 106.7/100. Most Germans were expelled from Poland and the annexed east German territories at the end of the...
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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...
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so-called ethnic Germans who had taken an active part in the struggle for the Germanization of Poland. Group Two included those ethnic Germans who had not...
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The history of Poland from 1945 to 1989 spans the period of Marxist–Leninist regime in Poland after the end of World War II. These years, while featuring...
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Sudeten Germans (now the Czech Republic). Germans of Silesia (now Poland). Germans of East Prussia (the largest group), including Germans of Poland; see...
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Religion in Poland is rapidly declining, although historically it had been one of the most Catholic countries in the world. According to a 2018 report...
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was resettled by ethnic Germans from eastern Europe. The rest of Poland was occupied by the Soviet Union, which invaded Poland from the east on 17 September...
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German-occupied Poland during World War II consisted of two major parts with different types of administration. The Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany...
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The Germany–Poland border (German: Grenze zwischen Deutschland und Polen, Polish: Granica polsko-niemiecka) is the state border between Poland and Germany...
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this source, which is in the public domain. Country Studies. Federal Research Division. - Poland. The Cambridge History of Poland (two vols., 1941–1950)...
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of German identity. Estimates on the total number of Germans in the world range from 100 to 150 million, most of whom live in Germany. The history of...
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Baltic Germans were, until after World War II, along with the Transylvanian Saxons and the Zipser Germans (in Romania and Slovakia respectively), one of the...
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Invasion of Poland at the beginning of World War II, nearly a quarter of the entire territory of the Second Polish Republic was annexed by Nazi Germany and...
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During the German occupation of Poland, citizens of all its major ethnic groups collaborated with the Germans. Estimates of the number of collaborators...
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The Poland national football team (Polish: Reprezentacja Polski w piłce nożnej) represents Poland in men's international football competitions since their...
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the arrival of German forces. In the spring and summer of 1940 the Nazi authorities in German-occupied central Poland (the so-called General Government)...
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Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains...
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