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Once granted Polish citizenship, they were encouraged to Polonize their names, or to restore their original Polish names if they had been Germanized during the war. Numbers of how many were offered to stay in Poland as Poles and eventually did are not available, [106] but it is assumed that the vast majority had rather opted and left for Germany by 1960. [106]
The history of Germans in Poland dates back almost a millennium. Poland was at one point Europe's most multiethnic state during the medieval period. Its territory covered an immense plain with no natural boundaries, with a thinly scattered population of many ethnic groups, including the Poles themselves, Germans in the cities of West Prussia ...
v. t. e. The racial policy of Nazi Germany was a set of policies and laws implemented in Nazi Germany under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, based on pseudoscientific and racist doctrines asserting the superiority of the putative "Aryan race", which claimed scientific legitimacy.
Reinhard Heydrich. Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich ( / ˈhaɪdrɪk / HY-drik; German: [ˈʁaɪnhaʁt ˈtʁɪstan ˈʔɔʏɡn̩ ˈhaɪdʁɪç] ⓘ; 7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking German SS and police official during the Nazi era and a principal architect of the Holocaust . Heydrich was chief of the Reich Security Main Office ...
Expulsion of 325,000 Poles. [2] The expulsion of Poles by Germany was a prolonged anti-Polish campaign of ethnic cleansing by violent and terror-inspiring means lasting nearly half a century. It began with the concept of Pan-Germanism developed in the early 19th century and culminated in the racial policy of Nazi Germany that asserted the ...
Germanized family names. For surnames that have been classified as being "Germanizations" or "Germanized".
The ethnonym "Sorbs" ( Serbja, Serby) derives from the medieval ethnic groups called "Sorbs" ( Surbi, Sorabi ). The original ethnonym, Srbi, was retained by the Sorbs and Serbs in the Balkans. [7] By the 6th century, Slavs occupied the area west of the Oder formerly inhabited by Germanic peoples. [7]
