The Recovered Territories or Regained Lands, also known as the Western Borderlands, and previously as the Western and Northern Territories, Postulated Territories and Returning Territories, was an off
Polish nationalist propaganda from the 1930s: "Nie jestesmy tu od wczoraj. Sięgaliśmy daleko na zachód." (We are not here since yesterday. Once we reached far west.)
Castle of the Dukes of Pomerania in Szczecin
Gdańsk was a principal seaport of Poland since the Middle Ages. From the mid-15th to the early 18th century, it was the largest city in Poland. Lost by Poland in the Second Partition in 1793.
Birthplace of Stanisław Staszic, a leading figure of Polish Enlightenment, in Piła (nowadays a museum)
Eastern Borderlands, often simply Borderlands was a historical region of the eastern part of the Second Polish Republic. The term was coined during the interwar period. Largely agricultural and extens
Recovered Territories
…from East Upper Silesia moved into the rest of Silesia. And people from Masovia and the Suwałki Region moved into adjacent Masuria. Poles expelled from former Polish territories in the east (today mainly parts of Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania) settled in large numbers everywhere in the Recovered Territories (but many of them also settled…
Leon Wyczółkowski "Ploughing in the Ukraine"
Members of the German Ordnungspolizei shooting naked women and children in the Mizoch Ghetto, October 1942
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia in 1943. Most Poles of Volhynia (now in Ukraine) had either been murdered or had fled the area.
The Skirmunt estate, Moładaŭ, by Napoleon Orda 1875