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The Oder is a river in Central Europe. It is Poland's second-longest river and third-longest within its borders after the Vistula and its largest tributary the Warta. The Oder rises in the Czech Repub
The Oder in the city of Wrocław, Poland. Rędzin Island before the construction of the Rędzin Bridge.
Exceptionally high water level in Brzeg Dolny (September 2024)
Łarpia, a left distributary of the Oder in Police, Poland
The Oder dividing Poland and Germany seen from the Polish side near Kostrzyn nad Odrą
During the later stages of World War II and the post-war period, both German citizens and ethnic Germans from outside the German state fled and were ethnically cleansed through expulsion from various
Oder
…these two rivers was evacuated by the Nazis during the war or fled from the approaching Red Army. After the war, the remaining 8 million Germans were expelled from these territories by the Polish and Soviet administrations. East Germany confirmed the border with Poland under Soviet pressure in the Treaty of…
German expellees, 1946
German refugees moving westwards in 1945
Karl Hermann Frank, Secretary of State and Higher SS and Police Leader in Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (right) was born in Carlsbad, Austria-Hungary (present-day Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic).
Adolf Hitler being welcomed by a crowd in Sudetenland, where the pro-Nazi Sudeten German Party gained 88% of ethnic-German votes in May 1938