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In 1890 the Germanisation of Poles was slightly eased for a couple of years but the activities intensified again since 1894 and continued until the end of the World War I. This led to international condemnation, e.g., an international meeting of socialists held in Brussels in 1902 called the Germanisation of Poles in Prussia "barbarous". [11]
The implementation of Germanisation requires a change of character of the occupied nation via partial expulsion of the Polish populous and the assimilation of the rest, deemed upon their "racially worthy" elements." [1] The greatest fervour of Germanisation was implemented in those regions seized by the German Wehrmacht during World War II.
"Non-Germans" Under the Third Reich: The Nazi Judicial and Administrative System in Germany and Occupied Eastern Europe with Special Regard to Occupied Poland, 1939–1945. JHU Press. ISBN 0-8018-6493-3. Niewyk, Donald L.; Nicosia, Francis R. (13 August 2013). The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-52878-8.
The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War (2012) Korbel, Josef. Poland Between East and West: Soviet and German Diplomacy toward Poland, 1919–1933 (Princeton University Press, 1963) online; Polonsky, A. Politics in Independent Poland, 1921-1939: The Crisis of Constitutional Government (1972) Remak, Joachim.
Polish Matczak family among Poles expelled in 1939 from Sieradz in central Poland. The Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany during World War II was a massive operation consisting of the forced resettlement of over 1.7 million Poles from the territories of German-occupied Poland, with the aim of their Germanization (see Lebensraum) between 1939 and 1944.
Map of the phases of German eastward expansion (8th to 14th century) based on the work of Walter Kuhn, Nazi Party member and propagandist of the Germanisation of Poland. Early Germanisation went along with the Ostsiedlung during the Middle Ages in Hanoverian Wendland, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lusatia, and other areas, formerly inhabited by ...
Poland's government crossed the border into Romania, and later formed a government-in-exile in France and then in London, following the French capitulation. Poland as a polity never surrendered to the Germans. [4] The partition of Poland according to the German–Soviet Pact; division of Polish territories in the years 1939–1941
[9] [10] The remainder of the Polish territory was either annexed by the Soviet Union (201,000 km 2 [2] or 51.6% [2] of pre-war Poland as per the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact) or made into the German-controlled General Government occupation zone (95,500 km 2 [2] or 24.5% [2] of pre-war Poland).