Germany's Confirmation of the Oder-Nice River Boundary

1950, the governments of East Germany and Poland signed the Treaty of Zgrel Lai Ci (Zgrel Lai Ci is a city of Lower Silesia in Poland, see G? rlitz for details), which confirmed the Oder-Nice River line and called it "the border of peace and friendship". 1989, the two countries confirmed the maritime boundary. 1952, Stalin allowed Germany to reunify on the condition that the border was confirmed, but German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer refused, for several reasons. A total of12 million Germans were expelled because of the border line, and most of them went to West Germany.

Therefore, they confirmed that the border was absolutely unacceptable. In fact, based on Halstanism, West Germany does not recognize Poland and Soviet-controlled East Germany. German Chancellor Willy Brandt advocated Oriental politics and gradually changed the attitude of West Germany. 1970, West Germany signed the Moscow Treaty and the Warsaw Treaty with the Soviet Union and Poland respectively, recognizing the Oder-Nice River line as the actual border of Poland. In the future, expelled residents of eastern Germany can visit the lost land.

1990165438+10/4, Germany was unified. The Federal Republic of Germany and Poland signed the 2+4 Treaty (the treaty that finally solved the German problem) to determine the border. Prior to this, Germany amended the Constitution and abolished Article 23 of the West German Constitution, which was about the unification of Germany and could be used to recover the lost land in the east. German Chancellor helmut kohl at that time initially refused to recognize the border between Germany and Poland. As a result, other countries made a lot of diplomatic efforts before Germany agreed to the final solution. Today, about150,000 Germans still live in Poland-mostly in Opole province, others in Silesia and mazur. 1500,000 Poles live in Germany. They are new immigrants or have lived in Germany for generations. Some Polish immigrants may be Germans at all, but they only moved here from the former German territory at a later stage.

1991June 17, the two countries signed the treaty of friendly neighbors to ensure that the two peoples enjoy basic political and cultural rights in their respective territories. It comes into force at the same time as the 1992 and 1.06 treaties. However, the cultural and political rights of many ethnic minorities have not been recognized by these two countries. Among them, many German residents in Opole Province have obtained German passports, and they have been able to work freely in EU member countries in Western Europe in the past ten years, but they still said that they were discriminated against at that time.