After World War I, Lower Silesia, having by far a German majority, remained with Germany while Upper Silesia, after a series of insurrections by the Polish inhabitants, was split. Part joined the …

Silesia [a] (see names below) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany.Its area is approximately 40,000 …

The First Silesian War (German: Erster Schlesischer Krieg) was a war between Prussia and Austria that lasted from 1740 to 1742 and resulted in Prussia's seizing most of the region of …

In 1945, at the end of World War II, Silesia was one of the regions of German territory that was granted to Poland by the Soviet Union in compensation for land in eastern Poland that was …

German propaganda in Upper Silesia Used during the Silesian plebiscite following the First World War, this poster admonishes Upper Silesians to vote German. It depicts an oversized Polish …

Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, an overall majority voted to remain with Germany. Therefore, Germany claimed that the whole area should remain German. However, in making that claim, …

There were a number of key events in the Upper Silesia crisis: In 1921 a plebiscite was organised by the League to decide whether Upper Silesia would become German or Polish territory. …

the new state's borders were problematic, especially in the case of Upper Silesia, which was one of the industrial powerhouses of central Europe, containing coal, iron and steel industries that …

Just as World War I was winding down, Upper Silesia, a Polish-German borderland, was set ablaze by ethnic violence that threatened to tear apart the population. The tensions were …

The Upper Silesia plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty and carried out on 20 March 1921 to determine ownership of the province of Upper Silesia between Weimar …