Province of Upper Silesia
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The Province of Upper Silesia was a province of the Free State of Prussia from 1919 to 1945. It comprised much of the region of Upper Silesia and was eventually divided into two government regions cal
Government building in Oppeln (Opole), 1930s
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 Upper Silesia
…to the People's Republic of Poland; the territory is now in the Polish Opole and Silesian Voivodeships. Most Germans remaining in the territory were expelled westward in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement. The Landsmannschaft Schlesien represents German Silesians from Upper and Lower Silesia. Near and in…
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