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Poland had a very (understandably) bad relationship with the slavic minorities of Germany after ww2. They even kicked out roughly 90% of Masurians, which they tried to win over after ww1, just a bit over 20 years before. They and the Sorbs were viewed as too germanized to be part of a Polish state.
64 YEARS. Chapter 1. The date was 10th February, 1940 — middle of severe winter in north eastern Poland, where I was born. My family — father Adolf Miluk, mother Anna Miluk (nee Szpula ...
It happened as planned: England declared war on Germany on September 3rd, 1939, but not on the Soviet Union who also attacked Poland, and this is proof enough that it was England's (and Chamberlain's) intention in the first place to make war on Germany. Thus WW2 was arranged by a complicity between Britain and Poland.
Just give the new Jewish state the previously German-held territory that Poland got in our timeline. I voted Prussia but I guess that would be more Silesia. Of course one reason this didn't happen is that Zionism was already a project well prior to the Nazi era. Israel was very definitely not founded by Holocaust survivors.
Upon their defeat, East Prussia was given to the Soviet Union (now Kaliningrad) and West Prussia remained in Polish hands. After World War 2, Germany were ousted from Romania, Czechslovakia, Poland and to a lesser extent, other Baltic and Slavic nations. The most bloody incidents occurred in Prussia, where they were deported across the world.
However, since 1945 the only evidence that this community ever existed is the occasional old store facade or things like that. Germans were a minority where I am from, so I was really curious as to what the erasure and cleansing of Germans and German culture looked like in areas where Germans were the absolute majority (East Prussia, Silesia, etc).
Günther Grass, a famous author and nobel prize winner from Danzig wrote numerous books which somewhat pick up that theme and perhaps challenge the silence surrounding what happened in the east at the end of the war. As for Prussia, I don't think most people care at all. Prussia is not viewed particularly positively and mostly forgotten.
