I know that many expats from Vilnius region in Lithuania (where I live) came to Olsztyn.
sovietarmyfan on
*taken
MOltho on
“Regained Lands” – that’s a euphemism I really don’t like as a German of Polish descent.
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CrimsonCartographer on
Just looking at some of the comments here: you don’t have to be a Holocaust apologist to dislike ethnic cleansings, and the mass deportation of 15+ million people of an ethnicity definitely counts as an ethnic cleansing.
The Holocaust and WW2 was wrong, but that wrong doesn’t mean forcing tens of millions of people to completely uproot their lives and abandon lands they’ve lived on for centuries is right either.
ZhenXiaoMing on
*Land ethnically cleansed of the native Germans
schneeleopard8 on
It was just as regained as Ukraine and Belarus regained Lviv and Brest.
Quotenbanane on
“Regained” by ethnic cleansing yeah.
Zenar45 on
Everyone crying about the “regained lands” but no one asking wtf it says, some legend translation would be appreciated
nafroleon_ on
what the hell are these comments? do you people understand that the germans have just caused ww2 a few years before that? wtf
Designer-Muffin-5653 on
Regained? Some of these never have been polish ever and were optained throu genocide and ethnic clensing
Kamilkadze2000 on
“Regained Land” is in Poland historical term which lost already an idelogical part of it and trust me, a rly low amount of people think that all of it was rly regained. I think OP don’t want to forcing any point of view here, It’s just cultural misunderstanding.
LandscapeOld2145 on
No one’s noting that Poland didn’t ask to have all its borders shifted west – Stalin gave this territory to Poland.
dusank98_vol2 on
Does someone know what this category 4 could be?
Ceres_19thCentury on
Is it called „regained“ in Poland, in fact?
Toruviel_ on
People mentioning Goths, Vandals and Burgundian tribes are so funny. By that logic France should rule half of modern Germany and Poland since Celts were before in Poland. Germanic tribes had been there, in parts of modern Poland, for 700~ years while Slavs have been in all of Poland since 1550 years
Also compering[ great migration period](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_Period#/media/File:Invasions_of_the_Roman_Empire_1.png) of 5th century to medieval [conquests and colonization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostsiedlung) of 10t-13th centuries is laughable.
ethnic cleansing of Germans is bad so was starting ww2, holocaust and ethnic cleansing of [1.7mln Poles ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Poles_by_Nazi_Germany)during ww2 by Nazi Germany. Changes were made by totalitarian powers I say let’s hate hitler and stalin equally.
AlbatrossCool7513 on
Regained?
RandyFMcDonald on
What an interesting map!
This does a good job of highlighting some interesting patterns, for instance the resettlement of much of Silesia particularly by migrants from the lost east, and the survival of indigenous populations in Upper Silesia and Warmia.
Zestronen on
If redditors were teachers: “Timmy I know that Jason tormented you for 3 years, broke your ribbs, burned your house and killed your dog, but it still wrong that you kicked him in the ankle”
EZ4JONIY on
Rgained?
Those lands were never inhabited by poles. Kashubians arent poles, pomeranians arent poles and silesians also arent poles
SharLiJu on
Any Germans here?
Do you have any movements to get the German land back
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And I thought that they were all from the Kresy
“regained lands”, lmao
I know that many expats from Vilnius region in Lithuania (where I live) came to Olsztyn.
*taken
“Regained Lands” – that’s a euphemism I really don’t like as a German of Polish descent.
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Just looking at some of the comments here: you don’t have to be a Holocaust apologist to dislike ethnic cleansings, and the mass deportation of 15+ million people of an ethnicity definitely counts as an ethnic cleansing.
The Holocaust and WW2 was wrong, but that wrong doesn’t mean forcing tens of millions of people to completely uproot their lives and abandon lands they’ve lived on for centuries is right either.
*Land ethnically cleansed of the native Germans
It was just as regained as Ukraine and Belarus regained Lviv and Brest.
“Regained” by ethnic cleansing yeah.
Everyone crying about the “regained lands” but no one asking wtf it says, some legend translation would be appreciated
what the hell are these comments? do you people understand that the germans have just caused ww2 a few years before that? wtf
Regained? Some of these never have been polish ever and were optained throu genocide and ethnic clensing
“Regained Land” is in Poland historical term which lost already an idelogical part of it and trust me, a rly low amount of people think that all of it was rly regained. I think OP don’t want to forcing any point of view here, It’s just cultural misunderstanding.
No one’s noting that Poland didn’t ask to have all its borders shifted west – Stalin gave this territory to Poland.
Does someone know what this category 4 could be?
Is it called „regained“ in Poland, in fact?
People mentioning Goths, Vandals and Burgundian tribes are so funny. By that logic France should rule half of modern Germany and Poland since Celts were before in Poland. Germanic tribes had been there, in parts of modern Poland, for 700~ years while Slavs have been in all of Poland since 1550 years
Also compering[ great migration period](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_Period#/media/File:Invasions_of_the_Roman_Empire_1.png) of 5th century to medieval [conquests and colonization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostsiedlung) of 10t-13th centuries is laughable.
ethnic cleansing of Germans is bad so was starting ww2, holocaust and ethnic cleansing of [1.7mln Poles ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Poles_by_Nazi_Germany)during ww2 by Nazi Germany. Changes were made by totalitarian powers I say let’s hate hitler and stalin equally.
Regained?
What an interesting map!
This does a good job of highlighting some interesting patterns, for instance the resettlement of much of Silesia particularly by migrants from the lost east, and the survival of indigenous populations in Upper Silesia and Warmia.
If redditors were teachers: “Timmy I know that Jason tormented you for 3 years, broke your ribbs, burned your house and killed your dog, but it still wrong that you kicked him in the ankle”
Rgained?
Those lands were never inhabited by poles. Kashubians arent poles, pomeranians arent poles and silesians also arent poles
Any Germans here?
Do you have any movements to get the German land back
Robbed and occupied land
I do not understand the colours
How to define regain.
occupied germany