Early in 1939, Odilo Globocnik, the Gauleiter of Vienna, established SS headquarters for all of Poland.

Any free elections that were to be held in Poland would have to produce a government in which Moscow had complete confidence, and all pressure from the West for free voting by anti-Soviet elements in Poland would be met by restrictions on voting by these elements.

Luther for his part did not stop at the suggestion, but in order to facilitate the change made special efforts to spread his teaching among the Prussians, while Albert's brother, Margrave George of Brandenburg-Ansbach, laid the scheme before their uncle, Sigismund I the Old of Poland.

Auschwitz had for a long time been a German name for Oświęcim, the town by and around which the camps were located ; the name " Auschwitz " was made the official name again by the Germans after they invaded Poland in September 1939.

Anti-globalization militants worried for a proper functioning of democratic institutions as the leaders of many democratic countries ( Spain, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom ) were acting against the wishes of the majorities of their populations in supporting the war.

Six weeks before the German invasion of Poland, Heschel left Warsaw for London with the help of Julian Morgenstern, president of Hebrew Union College, who had been working to obtain visas for Jewish scholars in Europe.

In 1995, the American Welding Society presented the Historic Welded Structure Award for the bridge to Poland.

The Battle of Świecino ( named for the village of Świecino, near Żarnowiec Lake, northern Poland ) also called the Battle of Żarnowiec or in German Battle of Schwetz, took place on September 17, 1462 during the Thirteen Years ' War.

In February 2007, the US started formal negotiations with Czech Republic and Poland concerning construction of missile shield installations in those countries for a Ground-Based Midcourse Defense System.

Wincenty Kadłubek ( Vincent Kadlubo, 1160 – 1223 ) used for the first time the original Latin term res publica in the context of Poland in his " Chronicles of the Kings and Princes of Poland.

" The name was used officially for the confederal country formed by Poland and Lithuania 1569 – 1795.

A more correct term should be " mounted infantry " instead of " cavalry ", as horses were primarily used as a means of transportation, for which they were very suitable in view of the very poor road conditions in pre-war Poland.

He sanctioned a code of laws for Great and Lesser Poland, which gained for him the title of " the Polish Justinian " and founded the University of Kraków which is the oldest Polish university, although his death temporarily stalled the university's development ( which is why it is today called the " Jagiellonian " rather than " Casimirian " University ).

In exchange, the szlachta's tax burden was reduced and they would no longer be required to pay for military expeditions expenses outside Poland.

Thus, and in order to provide a clear line of succession and avoid dynastic uncertainty, he arranged for his nephew, King Louis I of Hungary, to be his successor in Poland.

* A. M. Rosenthal ( 1949 ), former executive editor of The New York Times who championed the publication of the Pentagon Papers ; Pulitzer prize winning journalist expelled from Poland in 1959 for his reporting on the nation ’ s government and society

Just as important, Thompson was, with Ken Coates, Mary Kaldor and others, an author of the 1980 Appeal for European Nuclear Disarmament, calling for a nuclear-free Europe from Poland to Portugal, which was the founding document of European Nuclear Disarmament.

For assistance against the Order, the Confederation asked for help from King Casimir IV of Poland ; Casimir's subsequent claiming of Prussia led to the Thirteen Years ' War.

The elections in 2009 saw a significant drop in some areas in support for Eurosceptic parties, with all MEPs from Poland, Denmark and Sweden losing their seats.

The committee recommended that Upper Silesia be divided between Poland and Germany according to the preferences shown in the plebiscite and that the two sides should decide the details of the interaction between the two areas – for example, whether goods should pass freely over the border due to the economic and industrial interdependency of the two areas.

# Many Poles living in emigrant communities ( for example in the USA ), whose families left Poland just after World War II, retain a number of minor features of Polish vocabulary as spoken in the first half of the 20th century that now sound archaic, however, to contemporary visitors from Poland.

Although Pius XII received frequent reports about atrocities committed by and / or against Catholics, his knowledge was incomplete ; for example, he wept after the war on learning that Cardinal Hlond had banned German liturgical services in Poland.

For example, it is used in French presidential, legislative, and cantonal elections, and also to elect the presidents of Afghanistan, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, France, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Liberia, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Timor-Leste, Ukraine, Uruguay, Zimbabwe — see: Table of voting systems by nation.

David Ben-Gurion, for example, was born David Grün in Poland.

For example, in 1933 H. G. Wells postulated in The Shape of Things to Come a Second World War in which Nazi Germany and Poland are evenly matched militarily, fighting an indecisive war over ten years ; and Poul Anderson's early 1950s Psychotechnic League depicted a world undergoing a devastating nuclear war in 1958, yet by the early 21st century managing not only to rebuild the ruins on Earth but also engage in extensive space colonization of the Moon and several planets.

Some are converted to serve modern purposes, as for example, the Wieża Ciśnień in Wrocław, Poland which is today a restaurant complex.

There is no strict division in Poland between theatre and film directors and actors, therefore many stage artists are known to theatre goers from films of Andrzej Wajda, for example: Wojciech Pszoniak, Daniel Olbrychski, Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwiłowicz, and from films of Krzysztof Kieślowski, actors such as Jerzy Stuhr, Janusz Gajos and others.

Article 23 was rewritten and it can still be understood as an invitation to others ( e. g. Austria ) to join, although the main idea of the change was to calm fears in ( for example ) Poland, that Germany would later try to rejoin with former eastern territories of Germany that were now Polish or parts of other countries in the East.

Many other anti-fascist resistance movements across Nazi-occupied Europe consisted partially of children ( for example, Szare Szeregi in Poland ).

It is one of the very few examples of French Renaissance architecture in Poland and the only example of a magnate's manor from the times of Vasa dynasty to survive World War II.

In Russia and Poland the channels are shifted 5 kHz down ; for example, channel 30 is 27. 300 MHz.

An example are child actor twin identical brothers Lech and Jarosław Kaczyński who became very success politicians in Poland, at one time one being President and the other the Prime Minister at the same time.

For example, in reference to the Soviet Union, the Party meant the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ; in reference to the former People's Republic of Poland it referred to the Polish United Workers ' Party.

In Poland, for example, it was commonly a few days per year per household in the 13th century ; one day per week per household in the 14th century ; four days per week per household in the 17th century and six days per week per household in the 18th century.

The preeminent example of a planned community in interwar Poland is Gdynia.

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This is true in Poland, for example, where Taragüí Yerba Mate has become as well known as in Argentina.

The Błonia Park, originally established in the Middle Ages, is an example of a large village green in Cracow, Poland.

PGE Arena Gdańsk | PGE Arena in Gdańsk, Poland is an example of corporate naming.

The preeminent example of a planned community in interwar Poland is Gdynia.

For example, two sets of World War II military operations — by Germans against Poland in 1939 and by Allies against Nazi controlled France in 1944 — are often called the Invasion of Poland and Invasion of Normandy, respectively.