The Province of Pomerania was a province of Prussia from 1815 to 1945. Pomerania was established as a province of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815, an expansion of the older Brandenburg-Prussia province
Karl August von Hardenberg
Narrow gauge railway "Rügensche Kleinbahn", operating since 1895
The seat of government, now the West Pomeranian Voivodeship Office Building
Binz, tourist resort since the 1860s
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
Province of Pomerania (1815–1945)
…part of Poland. This line left the Oder river north of Gartz (Oder) and included the Szczecin and Świnoujście area into the Polish state. The remaining German population was expelled in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement and the area was resettled with Poles. Western Pomerania west of the Oder-Neisse line was merged with Mecklenburg…
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