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The CBH PAN is a centre for research on Polish–German relations in the context of European history and culture. [2] It carries out scientific, didactic, and cultural projects, intended both for experts and the general audience, either independently or in collaboration with international partners.
The history of Germans in Poland dates back almost a millennium. Poland was at one point Europe's most multiethnic state during the medieval period. Its territory covered an immense plain with no natural boundaries, with a thinly scattered population of many ethnic groups, including the Poles themselves, Germans in the cities of West Prussia ...
In the 16th century, after the Counter-Reformation was launched and the Thirty Years War broke out in the German lands, Poland became a Roman Catholic stronghold. In 1683, the Polish army commanded by Polish king John III Sobieski helped to relieve the siege of Vienna and along with the Holy Roman Empire, ended the growing expansion of the Ottoman Empire into Europe.
About 10,000 Polish citizens have recently moved to German localities along the Polish-German border, depopulated after the unification of Germany. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] Poles live especially within the Szczecin metropolitan area , which, although centered on the Polish city of Szczecin , also extends to the municipalities on the German side of the ...
Polish side German side Result 972: Battle of Cedynia [1] Location: Cedynia, present–day Poland. Civitas Schinesghe: Saxon Eastern March: Polish victory [2] 979–980: Otto II's raid on Poland [3] Part of the German-Polish Wars. Location: Poznań, Greater Poland. Civitas Schinesghe: Holy Roman Empire: Polish victory [4] 1003–1005: German ...
According to Edelman other nations subject to German expulsions didn't establish any comparable monuments, even as they faced a harsher fate than Germans. [22] The Polish government opposes the involvement of Erika Steinbach in any issues related to Polish-German history and at the same time supports an international net of centers dedicated to ...
The attempts by German organisations to build a Centre Against Expulsions dedicated to German people's suffering during World War II has led Polish politicians and activists to propose a Center for Martyrology of Polish Nation (called also Center for the Memory of Suffering of the Polish Nation) that would document the systematical oppression ...
During World War II, expulsions were initiated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland. The Germans deported 2.478 million Polish citizens from the Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany, [30] murdered 1.8 to 2.77 million ethnic Poles, [31] another 2.7 to 3 million Polish Jews and resettled 1.3 million ethnic Germans in their place. [32]