The registered German minority in Poland (Polish: Mniejszość niemiecka w Polsce; German: Deutsche Minderheit in Polen) is a group of German people that inhabit Poland, being the largest minority of the country. As of 2021, it had the population of 144,177.

The history of Germans in Poland dates back almost a millennium. Poland was at one point Europe's most multiethnic state during the medieval period. Its territory covered an immense plain with no natural boundaries, with a thinly scattered population of many ethnic groups, including the Poles themselves, Germans in the cities of West Prussia ...

According to the 2011 census, there were 74,464 Germans in Poland who cited German as their primary nationality, and 147,814 as their primary or secondary nationality. However, some estimates have put the size of German community in Poland as much higher, with some suggesting the total could be closer to 350,000.

Mar 20, 2025 · Poland was compensated with former German territories in the west, including Silesia, Pomerania, and East Prussia (cities such as Wrocław/Breslau, Szczecin/Stettin, and Gdańsk/Danzig). As a result, the entire country shifted westward by …

Jun 25, 2024 · During World War II, when Poland was under German occupation, life for the Polish population was characterized by oppression, persecution, and brutalities. The Nazis implemented a policy of extermination and enslavement, targeting Polish Jews and using forced labor of Polish civilians.

The number of Germans went down until 1931, either because they emigrated to Germany or because they acquired Polish citizenship. Although Polish Upper Silesia, with its larger share of German population, had not even been recorded in 1921, the number of Germans in Poland fell to around 740.000 over the course of these ten years.

After partitioning Poland at the end of the 18th century, the Kingdom of Prussia and later the German Empire imposed a number of Germanisation policies and measures in the newly gained territories, aimed at limiting the Polish ethnic presence and culture in these areas.

To understand how the war in 1939 between Poland and Germany, and consequently WW2, unfolded, it is not sufficient to look at - and accept - the widely-held view that peace-loving and weak little Poland was attacked by an ever-marauding National Socialist Germany.

Oct 1, 2012 · According to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), 9,434 German passport holders settled in Poland only last year, making Poland the third most popular destination for Germans relocating abroad, now ahead of Austria and behind only …

Oct 12, 2024 · The registered German minority in Poland at the 2011 national census consisted of 148,000 people, of whom 64,000 declared both German and Polish ethnicities and 45,000 solely German ethnicity. At a 2002 census there were 152,900 people declaring German ethnicity.