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The Eastern Neisse, [1] also known by its Polish name of Nysa Kłodzka (German: Glatzer Neiße, Czech: Kladská Nisa), is a river in southwestern Poland, a left tributary of the Oder, with a length of 188 km (21st longest) and a basin area of 4,570 km 2 (3,742 in Poland). [2] Prior to World War II it was part of Germany.
Occupied Germany in 1947. Territories east of the Oder–Neisse line were annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union under the terms of the Potsdam Agreement. After World War II, several memoranda of the US State Department warned against awarding Poland such extensive lands, apprehensive of creation of new long-standing tension in the area. In ...
The East German Socialist Unity Party (SED), founded 1946, originally rejected the Oder–Neisse line. [62] Under Soviet occupation and heavy pressure by Moscow, the official phrase Friedensgrenze (border of peace) was promulgated in March–April 1947 at the Moscow Foreign Ministers Conference.
The Oder–Neisse line Poland's old and new borders, 1945 At the end of World War II , Poland underwent major changes to the location of its international border. In 1945, after the defeat of Nazi Germany , the Oder–Neisse line became its western border, [ 1 ] resulting in gaining the Recovered Territories from Germany.
Nysa ⓘ (German: Neisse or Neiße) is a city in southern Poland on the Eastern Neisse (Polish: Nysa Kłodzka) river, situated in the Opole Voivodeship. With 43,849 inhabitants (2019), it is the capital of Nysa County. It comprises the urban portion of the surrounding Gmina Nysa. Historically the city was part of Upper Silesia.
The German population east of Oder-Neisse was estimated at over 11 million in early 1945. [3] The first mass flight of Germans followed the Red Army's advance and was composed of both spontaneous flight driven by Soviet atrocities, and organised evacuation starting in the summer of 1944 and continuing through to the spring of 1945. [4]
(The territories east of the Oder–Neisse line had been transferred from the Soviet occupation zone to the Polish authorities as agreed upon at the Potsdam Conference.) The five states were: Brandenburg was created out of the major part of the Prussian province of that name
Polish boundary post at the Oder–Neisse line in 1945. At the Potsdam Conference (17 July – 2 August 1945), the territory to the east of the Oder–Neisse line was assigned to Polish and Soviet Union administration pending the final peace treaty. All Germans had their property confiscated and were placed under restrictive jurisdiction.