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This article details the '''Polish-German relations'''. 


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

(contracted; show full)===Napoleon and Duchy of Warsaw===

[[Napoleon I]] temporarily turned the tables for about eight years, then the situation reversed again. [[Duchy of Warsaw]]. (Add info about Polish involvement, French relations, Germans preventing French shipments on river barges, etc.)

===Prussian times===

After the Napolean era, Prussia again received Great Poland, as part of a total of 5 Prussian provinces, which included large Polish speaking populations:
*[[
Province of Posen|Posen]]
*[[West Prussia]]
*[[East Prussia]]
*[[Pomerania]]
*[[Silesia]]

According to the [[Vienna peace congress]] agreement, Great Poland became the [[Grand Duchy of Posen]] (1815-1846), an autonomous province under [[Hohenzollern]] rule with the rights of ''"free development of Polish nation, culture and language"'', and outside the German Confederation.

(contracted; show full)==World War II and atrocities (1939-1945)==

[[World War II]] brought the brutal repressions of [[totalitarianism|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]]