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7 Mar 2012 / #151
I found an interesting map the Western allies presented Stalin at the Potsdam conference, with different proposals regarding the new Polish-German border, because they feared neither Germany nor Poland could cope with such a radical border shift to the rivers Oder/Odra and Neiße/Nysa:
de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Vertreibungsgebiet.jpg&filetimestamp=20080525171255
I once read when Stalin rejected all proposals and insisted on the Oder-Neisse border plus Stettin/Szczecin and Swinemünde/Świnoujście becoming cities withing the Polish borders, Churchill tried in a final step to place the German-Polish border not at the Lusatian Neisse but on the Rivers Bober/Bobr and Queiss/Kwisa which would have left Lauban/Luban and Sagan/Zagan as German cities.
Is it true that Poland had additional territorial claims towards Germany? I read once or twice that Polish lobbyists stipulated for all of the island Usedom/Uznam for instance, even claims for all of Hither Pomerania including the island of Rügen/Rugia were made. The Polish city name Słubice was reserved for all of Frankfurt/Oder and not only for the "Dammvorstadt", the Frankfurt quarter on the eastern bank of the Oder river. Also Poles made claims for the city of Lebus/Lubusz which was an important city of the First Polish kingdom in the Middle Ages. Anybody knows if there is some truth in this or is it just rumours?
de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Vertreibungsgebiet.jpg&filetimestamp=20080525171255
I once read when Stalin rejected all proposals and insisted on the Oder-Neisse border plus Stettin/Szczecin and Swinemünde/Świnoujście becoming cities withing the Polish borders, Churchill tried in a final step to place the German-Polish border not at the Lusatian Neisse but on the Rivers Bober/Bobr and Queiss/Kwisa which would have left Lauban/Luban and Sagan/Zagan as German cities.
Is it true that Poland had additional territorial claims towards Germany? I read once or twice that Polish lobbyists stipulated for all of the island Usedom/Uznam for instance, even claims for all of Hither Pomerania including the island of Rügen/Rugia were made. The Polish city name Słubice was reserved for all of Frankfurt/Oder and not only for the "Dammvorstadt", the Frankfurt quarter on the eastern bank of the Oder river. Also Poles made claims for the city of Lebus/Lubusz which was an important city of the First Polish kingdom in the Middle Ages. Anybody knows if there is some truth in this or is it just rumours?