PLAT
30 Jan 2010
Polonia / What about the Poles living in Germany? [65]
most of those who went to live in the Ruhr area where Schlesien(Slask) people - a minority, neither German neither Polish -although they are more culturally close to the Polish and the language is much more like polish than like german.
Alot of these people and also Poles who immigrated to Germany did so during the past 500 years, so why mention only 2004 Europ4ean Union accession period. During the Socialist years they could have gone there and remained as permanent residents .
I think its more justified by Poles moving to Germany rather than Britain, not only because of WW2 but mainly because the second largest ethnic minority in Poland after Jews since Poland came to existance were in fact Germans, some cities and towns leading up to WW2 had on average 20% Germans , in some like Lodz where there were more textile industry there were more.
most of those who went to live in the Ruhr area where Schlesien(Slask) people - a minority, neither German neither Polish -although they are more culturally close to the Polish and the language is much more like polish than like german.
Alot of these people and also Poles who immigrated to Germany did so during the past 500 years, so why mention only 2004 Europ4ean Union accession period. During the Socialist years they could have gone there and remained as permanent residents .
I think its more justified by Poles moving to Germany rather than Britain, not only because of WW2 but mainly because the second largest ethnic minority in Poland after Jews since Poland came to existance were in fact Germans, some cities and towns leading up to WW2 had on average 20% Germans , in some like Lodz where there were more textile industry there were more.