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However I don't think east Pomerania and east Brandenburg was ever Polish, although Silesia had a Polish minority. How were these territories acquired? In WW1, German territories were readily carved up by the Treaty of Versailles; what was the treaty in question after WW2?
"Away with the Germans behind their natural border! Let's get rid of them behind the Oder!" "Silesian Oppeln is Polish to the core; just as all of Silesia and all of Pomerania were Polish before the German onslaught!" 17 "To absorb all of East Prussia into Poland and to extend our western borders to the Oder and Neisse rivers, that is our goal.
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Not perhaps a likely event, but then again, it would add color to an alternate post-WW2 history ;) A perhaps interesting implication for east Germany is that the regions of Pommerania and Silesia and East Prussia would be very far from west Germany's and west Berlin's radio and TV transmitters.
As the war crossed into East Prussia, East Pomerania, and Upper and Lower Silesia, German military authorities made a critical error in judgment by choosing not to destroy stockpiles of alcohol in the approaching Red Army’s path.
DEVASTATED LANDS. The Soviet offensive in 1945 left enduring traces on the landscape of reclaimed Western and Northern Territories – ruins, abandoned military equipment, destroyed infrastructure,...
After partitioning Poland at the end of the 18th century, the Kingdom of Prussia and later the German Empire imposed a number of Germanisation policies and measures in the newly gained territories, aimed at limiting the Polish ethnic presence and culture in these areas.
