German minority in Poland
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The registered German minority in Poland at the Polish census of 2021 were 144,177.
Example of bilingual labeling in German and Polish on the town hall of the Polish village of Cisek.
Commanders of the Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz, a paramilitary organization composed of members of the German minority living in pre-war Poland, 1939
Willy-Brandt-Schule in Warsaw
Władysław Anders, a general in the Polish Army and prominent member of the Polish government-in-exile in London was of Baltic-German ancestry.
Opole Voivodeship
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Opole Voivodeship, is the smallest and least populated voivodeship (province) of Poland. The province's name derives from that of the region's capital and largest city, Opole. It is part of Upper Silesia. A relatively large German minority lives in the voivodeship, and the German language is co-official in 28 communes.
Opole, the voivodeship's capital
Nysa, the third-largest town by population in the south-west
Brzeg, a popular tourist attraction for its Renaissance Town Hall and Castle
Prudnik, with its preserved medieval town centre