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      • Frederick the Great of Prussia seized Silesia from Maria Theresa of Austria in 1742 in the War of Austrian Succession, after which it became a part of Prussia and subsequently, in 1871, the German Empire.
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  2. After World War I, Lower Silesia, having by far a German majority, remained with Germany while Upper Silesia, after a series of insurrections by the Polish inhabitants, was split. Part joined the Second Polish Republic and was administered as the Silesian Voivodeship.

  3. Prussian Upper Silesia became a part of the German Empire in 1871. Ethnolinguistic structure before the plebiscite. The earliest exact census figures on ethnolinguistic or national structure (Nationalverschiedenheit) of the Prussian part of Upper Silesia, come from year 1819. The last pre-WW1 general census figures available, are from 1910 (if ...

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  4. There were a number of key events in the Upper Silesia crisis: In 1921 a plebiscite was organised by the League to decide whether Upper Silesia would become German or Polish territory. Britain and France sent troops to ensure the vote was democratic.

  5. The German province of Upper Silesia was conquered by the Soviet Red Army from February until the end of March 1945 during World War II's Lower and Upper Silesian Offensives. The post-war Potsdam Agreement granted the entire province's territory to the People's Republic of Poland ; the territory is now in the Polish Opole and Silesian ...

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    After World War I, a part of Silesia, Upper Silesia, was contested by Germany and the newly independent Second Polish Republic. The League of Nations organized a plebiscite to decide the issue in 1921. It resulted in 60% of votes being cast for Germany and 40% for Poland.

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  7. In 1945, Silesia (Śląsk) became part of Poland; the vast majority of the German-speaking population resettled in various parts of Western and Eastern Germany, while Polish citizens moved in, many of them coming from areas of eastern Poland, such as the region of Lwów (now Lviv; in German, Lemberg), which had become part of Ukraine and thus ...

  8. Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, an overall majority voted to remain with Germany. Therefore, Germany claimed that the whole area should remain German. However, in making that claim, it was disregarding the treaty provisions for partitioning the area according to the wishes of the… Read More.

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