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An American eyewitness had this to say of his visit in 1958: “The formerly properous German provinces are today in a state of indescribable decay. The scum of the Polish nation attacked the land like a swarm of voracious locusts.”5
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Herbert Kraus, The German Eastern Territories behind Oder and Neisse in the Light of the Polish Press, Wurzburg, 1958, 92.
Erwin Hirschberg, Unser Schlesien heute, Aachen, 1955, sec. ed., 4ff.
Charles Wassermann, Europe’s Forgotten Territories, Copenhagen, 1960, 225.
H. Kraus, op. cit., 91. According to the Gazeta Robotnicza, December 28–29, 1957.
F. K. Richter, “Reise durch Schlesien heute,” Cincinnati Freie Presse, September 11, 1960.
E. Hirschberg, op. cit., 86. See also the very instructive article by Ziólkowski, “The Sociological Aspects of Demographic Changes in Polish Western Territories,” Polish Western Affairs, Poznan, 1962, 3, 1, 3–37.
Wladyslaw W. Kulski, Peaceful Co-Existence, An Analysis of Soviet Foreign Policy, Chicago, 1959, 426.
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Scholz, A.A. (1964). Lower Silesia in the Fifties. In: Silesia Yesterday and Today. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6539-8_14
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