The Sorbian language in the AD.

Wend, the collective name of Slavic tribes. By the 5th century BC, these tribes had settled in the east of modern Germany, and their activities ranged from Oder River in the east to Elbe River and Salle River in the west. Wende people live in Franks and other Germanic ethnic areas on the eastern border. Since the 6th century, Franks have been at war with Wenders from time to time. In the early 9th century, during the reign of Charlemagne, they began to conquer Wenders and forced them to convert to Christianity. The Germanic annexation of Wende territory began during the reign of Henry I in 929, but when Wende broke out in 983, the Germans lost control of the area east of the Elbe River. In the process of resisting Slavic and Germanic hegemony, Wende farmers also rejected Christianity.

1 125 under the command of german king lothar ii, Germany expanded eastward and invaded the elbe-oder region again. 1 147, the Catholic church agreed that Henry the lion led a German crusader to attack the Wenders. The crusade caused a large number of casualties among the Wenders. As a result, in the following centuries, Germany's colonial activities in the Elbe-Oder region were hardly resisted by the Wenders. German immigrants settled in the original Wende area, and they gathered into towns and became important commercial centers in northern Germany. The Wenders became serfs and were finally assimilated by the Germans. There are still a few Wenders living in their traditional residential area, Lu satya, called Sobu, which is a minority in eastern Germany today. During Nazi Germany's rule, Sorbian people were forced to assimilate, Sorbian place names were banned, and Sorbian newspapers were banned. Sorbian teachers and intellectuals were expelled from Germany, while Sorbian nationalists were put into concentration camps.

After World War II, a large number of German refugees from Poland and Czech Republic poured into Lusatia, which aggravated the tension between Sorbian and German ethnic groups in this area. The Sorbian people set up a meeting of representatives of the Sorbian people in Lu satya, demanding that the Czechoslovak government protect its own interests, send troops to occupy the Lu satya area, and even establish an independent Sorbian country in this area. After the establishment of the German Democratic Republic, it was recognized as a national minority in Germany. After the reunification of Germany, the German federal government also recognized the Sorbian minority status.