Category: Germans in Poland

The synagogue in Kattowitz – 8 September 1939

“Officially” it is acknowledged, that the synagogue in Katowice (Kattowitz) was deliberately set on fire by the Germans on the 3 or 4 September 1939 (another rumor has  the synagogue  “blown up” by the Germans). Here we are presenting an article written by Germans themselves and published by the editorial office of the “Kattowitzer Zeitung” …

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Pomerania and Silesia – a response to a publication by “Justice For Germans”

On 6 September 2013 a submission “An expelled German family visits the occupied German province of Pomerania” by Pablo von Koeller was presented on the site of Justice For Germans. The letter reminds me of my own impressions, both from Pomerania (Polish: “Pomorze”) and – even more prominently – from Upper Silesia, where I grew …

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