Map from the US Department of State's Demographics Division dated 10 January 1945. Germany and Poland Proposed Territorial Changes, based in part on prewar German population census data. Was used during boundary negotiations at the 1945 Potsdam conference. Not only were the Nazis' territorial alterations reversed in Germany, but the boundary was shifted westward, deep into land that had been part of Germany with an almost entirely German population in 1937. [42] The new line included almost all of Silesia, more than half of Pomerania, the eastern section of Brandenburg, a tiny piece of Saxony, the old Free City of Danzig, and the southern two-thirds of East Prussia (Masuria and Warmia) (see Former eastern territories of Germany). The Soviet Union immediately seized the northeastern third of East Prussia, with the Memelland becoming part of the Lithuanian SSR and the majority of the region constituting the new Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian SFSR.
Germany, Poland, and the Soviet Union until 1945 [Edit | Quelltext bearbeiten]
Die nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg durch die Potsdamer Beschl14sse unter polnische Verwaltung gestellten Gebiete des Deutschen Reichs in 1937 umfassten die stlich von Oder und Neie gelegenen Gebiete der preuischen Provinzen Pommern, Brandenburg, Nieder- und Oberschlesien (als Teile Schlesiens), den Osten des schsischen Landkreises Zittau sowie den s14dlichen Teil Ostpreuen The population in these areas and in the self-governing Free City of Danzig since the Versailler Treaty was mostly deutschsprachig until 1945, with polnischsprachige minorities in Oberschlesien (11 percent), Danzig (4 percent), and Ostpreuen (2 percent, mostly Masuren).
