The Prussian Settlement Commission, officially known as the Royal Prussian Settlement Commission in the Provinces West Prussia and Posen was a Prussian government commission that operated between 1886
Former seat of the Prussian Settlement Commission, now Poznań University's Collegium Maius
Acquisitions of the Prussian Settlement Commission
German minority in Poland
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The registered German minority in Poland is a group of German people that inhabit Poland, being the largest minority of the country. As of 2021, it had a population of 144,177.
Prussian Settlement Commission
…in the expropriation of Commission-owned lands and reversing Germanization. Some of the former colonists, then as ethnically German Poles part of the German minority in Poland, were active in a Nazi campaign of genocide against Poles during World War II. English translations include German Colonization Commission for Poznań…
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
A temporary certificate of Polish nationality issued by the county office of Prudnik in 1946
Willy-Brandt-Schule in Warsaw