There are no surviving Prussians to return the land to.
Erm....I rather think most got converted rather than killed, but still...the pagan people "Prussians" vanished..
Thats wrong, the population and local goverments of Prussia were majorly Polish (but serving the Teutonic order) Kondrad Mazowiecki was crusading against Prussians and settling Poles
Isn't that a contradiction?
Are you mixing up the original Prussians with later Poles?
Wouldn't it be better to stop this "What belongs to whom?"
Facts are the country what now is Poland was settled by non-Poles for millennias.
For centuries it was heavily mixed...so this whole discussion is fruitless!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Poland
"Peoples belonging to numerous archeological cultures identified with Celtic, Germanic and Baltic tribes lived in and migrated through various parts of the territory that now constitutes Poland from about 400 BC."
Expanding and moving out of their homeland in Scandinavia and northern Germany the Germanic people settled this territory and used it as migrating route for several centuries.
Many Germanic tribes moved out of the area in the southern and eastern directions, while other remained. As the Roman Empire was nearing its collapse and the nomadic peoples invading from the east destroyed, damaged or destabilized the various Germanic cultures and societies, the Germanic people left eastern and central Europe for the safer and wealthier southern and western parts of the continent. The northeast corner of modern Poland's territory was and remained populated by Baltic tribes.
....so we're back to square one, Germans displacing Poles and Poles returning to their old lands :)
No we aren't! When you take only the known facts the Poles are the late comer in this region...and look where the border now is!
