Oder Neisse Line: Line, Lusatian Neisse, Former Eastern Territories of Germany, Weimar Republic, ¿winouj¿cie, East German Reunification

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Oder-Neisse line (Polish: Granica na Odrze i Nysie ¿üyckiej, German: Oder-Neiße-Grenze) is the border between Germany and Poland which was drawn in the aftermath of World War II. The line is formed primarily by the Oder and Lusatian Neisse rivers, and meets the Baltic Sea west of the seaport cities of Szczecin (German: Stettin) and ¿winouj¿cie (Swinemünde). All pre-war German territory east of the line (23.8% of the former Weimar Republic lands, most of them from Prussia) was either awarded to Poland or the Soviet Union after the war, and the vast majority of its native German population was expelled by force. The line marked the border between the German Democratic Republic and Poland from 1950 to 1990. In 1990 newly reunited Germany and the Republic of Poland signed a treaty recognizing it as their border.

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