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  1. The historical capital of Upper Silesia is Opole, nevertheless the largest towns of the region, including Katowice, are located in the Upper Silesian Industrial Region, the total population of which is about 2,500,000.

    • Opole
  2. The death toll of the Polish population in Upper Silesia at the hands of Germans is about 25,000 victims, with 20,000 of them being from urban population. Province of Upper Silesia during World War II, composed of merged German and Polish territories. In 1941, the Province of Silesia was again divided into the Provinces of Upper and Lower ...

  3. Upper Silesia has today over 6 million inhabitants with determinded animosity between Poles and Germans was another 1.5 to 2 million of its people living outside their cynically used as a means of reparations for Poland. A homeland.

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › SilesiaSilesia - Wikipedia

    Existing since the 12th century, Silesia's Jewish community was concentrated around Wrocław and Upper Silesia, and numbered 48,003 (1.1% of the population) in 1890, decreasing to 44,985 persons (0.9%) by 1910. In Polish East Upper Silesia, the number of Jews was around 90,000–100,000.

    • 40,400 km² (15,600 sq mi)
    • Wrocław
    • c. 8,000,000
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  6. May 3, 2024 · In 1945, at the end of World War II, Silesia was one of the regions of German territory that was granted to Poland by the Soviet Union in compensation for land in eastern Poland that was incorporated into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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  7. Jan 16, 2020 · The catastrophe of the Second World War saw the destruction of much of the region’s capital, Oppeln/Opole, and its Jewish inhabitants, but the vast majority of the population of Upper Silesia remained during the period of mass expulsions—even if many of these people had passed as German under the Nazi regime.

  8. Jul 1, 2004 · This article presents an analysis of the Polish-German scholarly and public debate of the last decades dedicated to the fate of the German population in Upper Silesia after the ending of the Second World War.

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