Abstract

After World War II, Allied horse-trading left Poland's treasured eastern borderlands in the hands of the Soviets. As compensation, Stalin gave the Poles Silesia, an ethnically mixed region to the west that happened to be a province of Germany. Forced German expulsion and "re-Polonization" ensued, but, as Chris Bebenek discovers, even in a unifi ed Europe ancient blood feuds die hard.

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