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3 unusual facts about Germanisation


Chlebowo, Lubusz Voivodeship

Under Nazi German rule, the village's name was Germanised to Lindenhain in 1937; after it fell to the Republic of Poland according to the 1945 Potsdam Agreement (see Territorial changes of Poland after World War II), it was renamed Niemaszchleba and again in 1953 Chlebowo.

Oberwart

According to the Nazi policy of Germanisation, the old Hungarian school of the Reformed Church was secularized.

Union Luxembourg

In 1940, the Nazis renamed Union, along with all other clubs as part of the process of Germanisation.


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Barczewo

In the 19th century with the rise of liberalism, nationalism and Otto von Bismarcks Kulturkampf repressions and Germanisation against Poles as well as organised resistance by Polish population followed.

Czerwieńsk

Around 1550 the von Rothenburg family of Nietków (a Slavic name Germanised as "Nettkowe") built a small hunting manor some 5 kilometres from their ancestral home.

Germanisation of the Province of Posen

The Kulturkampf struggle against the Catholic Church and the Catholic southern German states started almost simultaneously with an extensive campaign of Germanisation in the Greater Poland lands formerly belonging to the Polish Crown.

Kinder KZ

The Nazis kept an eye out for Polish children with Nordic racial characteristics, those among them found to be classified as "racially valuable" were sent from here to the German Reich for adoption and Germanisation to be raised as Germans.

Territoire de Belfort

: * after the loss to Germany of most of Alsace in 1871, the Belfort population was boosted by the arrival of large numbers of refugees from "germanisation": the years between 1871 and 1914 saw the development of large factories, with the mechanical and textile sectors prominent growth areas.


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