Draft:Polonization of the Former Eastern Germany (1918-1990)
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The Polonization of the Former Eastern Germany refers to extensive Polonization policies that rendered Eastern Germany an ethnically and culturally Polish region after 1945. Without consideration of self-determination, the Germans, who had inhabited the region for centuries since the Ostsiedlung, were expelled, subjected to collective guilt for the crimes of the Nazi German regime. The new Communist Polish regime did everything in their power to justify the Polonization as "ancient Polish lands", and downplayed, or sometimes even outright rejected the German heritage of the affected areas.