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Silesian (Silesian: Schläsisch, Schläs’sch, Schlä’sch, Schläsch, German: Schlesisch), Silesian German or Lower Silesian is a nearly extinct German dialect spoken in Silesia. It is part of the East Central German language area with some West Slavic and Lechitic influences.
Today, most German Silesians and their descendants live in the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany, many of them in the Ruhr area working as miners, like their ancestors in Silesia. One of its most notable but controversial spokesmen was the Christian Democratic Union politician Herbert Hupka .
Silesians (Silesian: Ślōnzŏki or Ślůnzoki; Silesian German: Schläsinger or Schläsier; German: Schlesier pronounced [ˈʃleːzi̯ɐ] ⓘ; Polish: Ślązacy; Czech: Slezané) is both an ethnic as well as a geographical term [5] for the inhabitants of Silesia, a historical region in Central Europe divided by the current national boundaries ...
[84] [85] The German populations in Silesia frequently welcomed the Wehrmacht and many thousands of Silesians were subsequently conscripted to the Wehrmacht. In 1940, the Germany's Nazi government started to construct the Auschwitz and Groß-Rosen concentration camps.
The Province of Silesia (German: Provinz Schlesien; Polish: Prowincja Śląska; Silesian: Prowincyjŏ Ślōnskŏ) was a province of Prussia from 1815 to 1919. The Silesia region was part of the Prussian realm since 1742 and established as an official province in 1815, then became part of the German Empire in 1871.
The German expellees were transported to the present-day Germany (including the former East Germany), and Polish migrants, a sizeable part of whom were themselves expelleés from former Polish provinces taken over by the USSR in the east, settled in Upper Silesia. A good many German-speaking Upper Silesians were relocated in Bavaria.
The flag of Upper Silesia proposed by the Union of Upper Silesians in 1920. The Union of Upper Silesians (German: Bund der Oberschlesier; Polish: Związek Górnoślązaków; Silesian: Ferajn Gůrnoślůnzokůw) was an early 20th-century movement for the independence of Upper Silesia. The movement had its genesis during the revolutions of 1848.
Silesians, inhabitants of Silesia, either a West Slavic (for example Ślężanie), or Germanic people (Schlesier or Silingi) List of Silesians; Silesian tribes; Silesian language, West Slavic language/dialect Cieszyn Silesian dialect; Texas Silesian; Silesian German language (Lower Silesian language), a Germanic dialect