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Ethnic conflicts in western Poland
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This article details the '''Polish-German relations'''. 


==Early history (until 16th century)==

Western [[Poland|Polish lands]] had some [[Germanic tribes|Germanic]] residents since medieval times, for the first several centuries by invitation. Polish landowners had unproductive land and needed more workers. Germans from the [[Protestant]] [[Low Countries]] were recruited to reclaim wetlands of northern Poland. Additionally, groups of oppressed Protestants from areas that [[Catholics]] had won in southern [[Germany]] (e.g. [[Württemberg]]) migrated in significant numbers. As time progressed the settler came more from neighboring German lands. For quite some time, the(contracted; show full)==World War II and atrocities (1939-1945)==

[[World War II]] brought the brutal repressions of [[totalitarism|totalitarian]] German state against Poles. Unspeakable [[atrocities]] touched every family in the Eastern provinces (see [[World War II atrocities in Poland]]).

==Post-WWII history==

[[Category:History of Germany]]
[[Category:History of Poland]]