Word: pomerania
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Secret Protocol. The problem of Poland's ethnic Germans dates from 1945, when Silesia, East Brandenburg, Pomerania and East Prussia, the former German provinces east of the Oder and Neisse rivers, were ceded to Poland at the Potsdam Conference. Some 9,575,000 Germans lived in the four provinces then; 7,330,000 have since left. In December, when West Germany recognized the Oder-Neisse boundary in the Bonn-Warsaw Treaty, a secret protocol paved the way for the remaining Germans to leave...
...about the country's political climate. Though German lands east of the Oder and Neisse rivers were put under Polish control at the close of World War II, West Germany's two television networks never renounced the German claim to the former provinces of Silesia, most of Pomerania and East Prussia. Each night 26 million West German television viewers saw a map that boldly portrayed German borders as they were in 1937, including the huge slices of land that now belong to Poland...
...Prussian army chaplain, Schleiermacher studied theology and philosophy at the University of Halle, was ordained a Reformed minister. After serving as a hospital chaplain, and pastor of churches in Bavaria and Pomerania, in 1810 he was named head of the University of Berlin's theology faculty, a post he held until his death. A product of both the Enlightenment and Germany's Romantic revival, Schleiermacher saw clearly that the traditional bases for faith in God were gradually being eroded by man's intellectual advances. Rationalist historians had begun to cast doubt on the authenticity of Scripture; scientific...
Right v. Right. Bonn's policy, from the early days of Konrad Adenauer through the present regime of Ludwig Erhard, has never publicly changed. Official West German maps label Silesia, Pomerania and East Prussia Zurzeit unter Polnischer Verwaltung (temporarily under Polish administration), and Germans still refer wistfully to Wroclaw as Breslau. Bonn argues that until a reunited Germany negotiates its final World War II peace treaty with the Big Four (as called for in the 1945 Potsdam Agreement), Germany's boundaries remain those of 1937-the year before Adolf Hitler began his Gross Deutschland annexations...
...were doubtless the work of a lunatic fringe, but it made many politicians wonder if the time would ever be ripe for a realistic abandonment of the "lost territories." A poll by the authoritative Aliens-bach Institute this year showed that only 28% of West Germans still believe that Pomerania, Silesia and East Prussia will ever be returned to Germany-compared with 66% in 1953. But 23% is still a good-sized practical fragment to deal with...