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Below are links to subpages listing German language names of towns and villages in different regions of Poland. Due to the country's history, many of those names have been in actual use locally, and are thus not exonyms.
In present-day Germany, the former eastern territories of Germany (German: ehemalige deutsche Ostgebiete) refer to those territories east of the current eastern border of Germany, i.e. the Oder–Neisse line, which historically had been considered German and which were annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union after World War II.
Map of Poland. This is a list of cities and towns in Poland, consisting of four sections: the full list of all 107 cities in Poland by size, followed by a description of the principal metropolitan areas of the country, the table of the most populated cities and towns in Poland, and finally, the full alphabetical list of all 107 Polish cities and 861 towns combined.
While the German census placed the number of Polish-speakers and bilinguals below 700,000 people, Polish demographers have estimated that the actual number of Poles in the former German East was between 1.2 [3] and 1.3 million. [5]
In the 1920s and 1930s, the Polish population increased. According to some sources, in 1938, the Free City's population of 410,000 was 98% German, 1% Polish and 1% other. [11] [35] [36] Other estimates suggest the proportion of Poles in the population of the Free City was around 20% in 1939 [37] or around 25% in 1936. [10]
In October 1939, a month after the invasion of Poland, Nazi Germany annexed an area of 92,500 square kilometres (35,700 sq mi) [2] (23.7% [2] of pre-war Poland) with a population of about 10,000,000 people (30% [2] of the pre-war Polish population).
A Polish-language poster, illustrating the drop in German population in selected cities of western Poland in the period 1910–1931. The German author Christian Raitz von Frentz writes that after First World War ended, the Polish government tried to reverse the systematic Germanization from former decades. [69]
Poles from other parts of Poland replaced the former German-speaking population, with the first settlers arriving in March 1945. [231] On 30 March 1945, the Gdańsk Voivodeship was established as the first administrative Polish unit in the Recovered Territories. [232] As of 1 November 1945, around 93,029 Germans remained within the city limits ...