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The Greater Poland uprising of 1918–1919, or Wielkopolska uprising of 1918–1919 (Polish: powstanie wielkopolskie 1918–1919 roku; German: Großpolnischer Aufstand) or Poznań War was a military insurrection of Poles in the Greater Poland region (German: Grand Duchy of Posen or Provinz Posen) against German rule.
The German labor office in Poznań demanded that children as young as 12 register for work, but it is known that even ten-year-old children were forced to work. [48] Spring: Komitet Niesienia Pomocy joined the Union of Armed Struggle. [33] May: The Polish resistance movement facilitated escapes of British prisoners of war from the Stalag XXI-D ...
Many Germans had fled the region as the Soviets advanced; the post-war expulsions of Germans from Polish territory in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement (and emigration of remaining Jews) left Poznań with an almost uniformly ethnically Polish population, which totalled 268,000 in 1946. During the early post-war years much of the city was ...
The city of Poznań, then known as Posen, had been part of Prussia since 1815 and later Germany, before being given to Poland with the Treaty of Versailles in 1920. Following the invasion of Poland in 1939, the city lay in the west part of Poland which was annexed by Nazi Germany, with the city being the local capital of Reichsgau Wartheland.
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Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, edited by Thomas Riggs, (3rd ed., vol. 3, Gale, 2014), pp. 477–492. online; Jones, Seth G. A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland (WW Norton, 2018). Kantorosinski, Zbigniew. Emblem of Good Will: a Polish Declaration of Admiration and Friendship for the United States of ...
Battle of Poznań can refer to: Battle of Poznań (1704) Battle of Poznań (1945) This page was last edited on 18 ...
White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War 1919-1920 and The Miracle on the Vistula (2003) Drzewieniecki, Walter M. "The Polish Army on the Eve of World War II," Polish Review (1981) 26#3 pp 54–64. in JSTOR; Garlicki, Andrzej. Józef Piłsudski, 1867-1935 (New York: Scolar Press 1995), scholarly biography; one-vol version of 4 vol Polish ...