09.01.2017, 08:23
Switching to English real quick just that I will make a post faster than one hour.
Yep, majority of Silesians comes from Germany. Why, you ask? During the plebiscite of Silesia, Hitler sent native Germans to live in Silesia, so they will count as "Silesians" and will participate in a plebiscite what country does this land belong to. Larger towns like Bytom or Katowice was almost full of native Germans, whose majority decided, that the bigger part of the land should be in Germany, while those poor peasants were mostly Polish (Silesian), who voted for the land to be Polish. After the war Silesia became (almost) fully Polish, but those native Germans who have stayed in here, changed slowly the dialect to sound more Deutsch-like. Every person who describes themselves as a German, not a Silesian, but lives here, is called Folksdeutsch, more like an insult. Why? Oh, that's just for another story.
The end :3
(Drinking game: drink everytime I wrote "Silesia")
Yep, majority of Silesians comes from Germany. Why, you ask? During the plebiscite of Silesia, Hitler sent native Germans to live in Silesia, so they will count as "Silesians" and will participate in a plebiscite what country does this land belong to. Larger towns like Bytom or Katowice was almost full of native Germans, whose majority decided, that the bigger part of the land should be in Germany, while those poor peasants were mostly Polish (Silesian), who voted for the land to be Polish. After the war Silesia became (almost) fully Polish, but those native Germans who have stayed in here, changed slowly the dialect to sound more Deutsch-like. Every person who describes themselves as a German, not a Silesian, but lives here, is called Folksdeutsch, more like an insult. Why? Oh, that's just for another story.
The end :3
(Drinking game: drink everytime I wrote "Silesia")
Oh no. We are doomed.