Word: silesia
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...days, trainloads of refugees arrived in each country. The brutality of the Poles was unsurpassed. Allegedly women with week-old babies were forced to join the German exodus. Many adults and a number of babies died. German families, settled in Upper Silesia for life, as they thought, were forced on only a few hours' notice to vacate their dwellings, leave their jobs, their household belongings, and go to a country that was so ill-prepared to receive them that many thousands had to be lodged in filthy barracks. And if the Germans were less inhuman, they were guilty...
...genesis of the dispute which led to the evictions dates back to 1921, when a plebiscite was held under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles to determine the sovereignty of Upper Silesia. The result of the plebiscite was that 717,122 Upper Silesians voted for German rule while 483,514 voted for Polish. The Treaty stipulated that the result of the plebiscite was to be determined by communes with regard to the wishes and to the geographical and economic conditions of the area...
...that all Germans who had voted for Germany in the 1921 plebiscite and who were incorporated in the Polish Republic (there are 400,000 of them) should be repatriated* to Germany. The German Government was informed by the Polish Government that its right to repatriate Germans resident in Polish Silesia would be exercised. Diplomatic negotiations were opened and, although it was clear that the Poles were inexorably bent upon carrying out their plans, the German Government took no steps to provide for the refugees from Poland. Either this was their stupidity or, more probably, a maneuver to show the Polish...
...from each region presented the President with a simple present and each child was presented with a small present from the President. Among the gifts the President received were: national emblem from Bohemia, basket of painted eggs from Moravia, a doll in Slovak costume from Slovakia, decorated plates from Silesia...
...Crown Prince appeared of a sudden in the streets of Berlin. He had come from his vast estates at Oels in Silesia to attend a meeting of German agriculturists...