Open links in new tab
  1. Copilot Answer
    Until the unification of Germany

    Following the partitions, the Prussian authorities started the policy of settling German speaking ethnic groups in these areas. Frederick the Great, in an effort to populate his sparsely populated kingdom, settled aro… See more

    1871 until the Treaty of Versailles

    Within Bismarck's Kulturkampf policy, the Poles were purposefully presented as "foes of the empire" (German: Reichsfeinde). Bismarck himself privately believed that the only solution to Polish Question was the exterminati… See more

    Germanisation of Poles in Ruhr area

    Another form of Germanisation of Poles was the relation between the German state and Polish coal miners in the Ruhr area. Due to migration within the German Empire, an enormous stream of Polish nationals (as many as 35… See more

    Germanisation plans during First World War

    During the First World War, the German Empire planned to annex up to 35,000 square kilometers of pre-war Congress Poland and ethnically cleanse between 2 and 3 million Poles and Jews out of these territories t… See more

     
  1. Some results have been removed