Michał Drzymała ( 13 September 1857 in Dorf und Rittergut Zdroj near Grätz ( Grodzisk Wielkopolski ), Kingdom of Prussia-25 April 1937 in Grabówno near Miasteczko Krajeńskie, Poland ) was a Polish peasant, living in the Greater Poland region ( or the Grand Duchy of Posen ) under the Prussian rule.

After World War I many Prussian agriculturists gathered in the national conservative German National People's Party ( DNVP ), the term was also applied to Reich President Paul von Hindenburg, lord at Neudeck in West Prussia, and to the " camarilla " around him urging the appointment of Adolf Hitler as German chancellor, personified by men like Hindenburg's son Oskar and his West Prussian " neighbour " Elard von Oldenburg-Januschau, who played a vital role in the Eastern Aid ( Osthilfe ) scandal of 1932 / 33.

* At Barth Ruth Neudeck ( March 1945-May 1945 ), in Belzig head female guard was Hedwig Ullrich ( Summer 1944-April 1945 ).

Elbing became part of the new Prussian Province of West Prussia in 1773.

In the 1815 provincial reorganization following the Napoleonic Wars, Elbing and its hinterland were included within Regierungsbezirk Danzig in West Prussia.

After World War I, most of West Prussia became part of the Second Polish Republic.

* 1920: Gdingen ( now named Gdynia ), along with other parts of former West Prussia, became a part of the new Republic of Poland ; simultaneously, the city of Danzig and surrounding area was declared a free city and put under the League of Nations, though Poland was given economic liberties and requisitioned for matters of foreign representation.

Former German territories east of the Oder and Neisse rivers, mainly the Prussian provinces of Pomerania, East Prussia, West Prussia, Upper Silesia, Lower Silesia, the eastern Neumark of Brandenburg, and a small piece of Saxony were thus detached from Germany.

Bismarck saw the Kulturkampf as a means of stopping this trend, which was led by the Catholic clergy in West Prussia, Poznania and Silesia.

Poland was restored and most of the provinces of Posen and West Prussia, and some areas of Upper Silesia were reincorporated into the reformed country after plebiscites and independence uprisings.

The earliest compulsory education in the West began in the late 17th century and early 18th century in the German states of Gotha, Calemberg and, particularly, Prussia.

Around the turn from the 18th to the 19th century an increase of the number of Catholics was observed, because military personnel had been moved from West Prussia to the town.

It moved to the German language through the German dialects of West Prussia, and is also present in the Kashubian language ( spelled: dali, dali )

The territories east of the new border comprised East Prussia, Silesia, West Prussia, and two thirds of Pomerania.

In 1900 alone, the Prussian provinces of East Prussia, West Prussia, Posen, Silesia, and Pomerania lost about 1, 600, 000 people to the cities, where these former agricultural workers were absorbed into the rapidly growing factory labor class ; One of the causes of this mass-migration was the decrease in rural income compared to the rates of pay in the cities.

Frederick II of Prussia was elated with his success ; Prussia took most of the Polish Royal Prussia that stood between its possessions in the Kingdom of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg, taking Ermland ( Warmia ), Royal Prussia without the city of Danzig ( Gdańsk ) ( which in 1773 became a new province called West Prussia ), northern areas of Greater Poland along the Noteć River ( the Netze District ), and parts of Kuyavia, ( also the Prussian city of Thorn ).

The Napoleonic Code was not the first legal code to be established in a European country with a civil legal system-it was preceded by the Codex Maximilianeus bavaricus civilis ( Bavaria, 1756 ), the Allgemeines Landrecht ( Prussia, 1794 ), and the West Galician Code ( Galicia, then part of Austria, 1797 ).

The area of Prussian control was made up of territory from the former Prussian provinces of New East Prussia, Southern Prussia, New Silesia, and West Prussia.

and his genius moved his readers to seek solutions of those evils for all Western men -- until today --, in the industrialized West, these social evils substantially do not exist.

Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.

The candidacy of Mayor James J. Sheeran of West Orange, for the Republican nomination for sheriff of Essex County, was supported today by Edward W. Roos, West Orange public safety commissioner.

-- Greece and West Germany have ratified an agreement under which Germany will pay $28,700,000 to Greek victims of Nazi persecution, it was announced today.

The constituency today includes the wards of Aberavon, Baglan, Briton Ferry East, Briton Ferry West, Bryn and Cwmavon, Coedffranc Central, Coedffranc North, Coedffranc West, Cymmer, Glyncorrwg, Gwynfi, Margam, Port Talbot, Sandfields East, Sandfields West and Tai-bach.

Alexander was born at Hales ( today Halesowen, West Midlands ), Shropshire, England between 1180 and 1186.

According to anthropologists Todd Sanders and Harry G. West, evidence suggests that a broad cross section of Americans today gives credence to at least some conspiracy theories.

The descendants of some Irish immigrants are known today in the West Indies as redlegs.

But Americans who serve today in West Berlin -- your sons and brothers --[...] are the Americans who are bearing the great burden.

She commented in the book's introduction: " Mention the name ' Moonies ' to anyone in the West today, and the chances are that you will receive an immediate reaction which falls somewhere between a delicate shudder and an indignant outburst of fury.

Thus, some claim that, from the 4th century, there existed unanimity in the West concerning the New Testament canon ( as it is today ), and that, by the 5th century, the Eastern Church, with a few exceptions, had come to accept the Book of Revelation and thus had come into harmony on the matter of the canon.

Where the river serves as a boundary between states today, Congress designated the entire river to belong to the states on the east and south, i. e., West Virginia and Kentucky at the time of admission to the Union, that were divided from Virginia.

He was visited once by Basil of Caesarea who took many of his ideas and implemented them in Caesarea, where Basil also made some adaptations that became the ascetic rule, or Ascetica, the rule still used today by the Eastern Orthodox Church, and comparable to that of the Rule of St. Benedict in the West.

* Palestinian territories, also known as " Occupied Palestinian Territory ", terms applied to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip collectively, today referring to the Palestinian Authority areas and the Hamas governed Gaza Strip

This was exhibited in the 1960 – 61 Test series against the visiting West Indians, in which the grounds were packed to greater levels than they are today despite Australia's population doubling since then.

The Saar Treaty established that French, not English as in the rest of West Germany, should remain the first foreign language taught in Saarland schools ; this provision is still largely followed today, although it is no longer binding.

The Tripartite Convention of 1899 partitioned the Samoan Islands into two parts: the eastern island group became a territory of the United States ( the Tutuila Islands in 1900 and officially Manu ' a in 1904 ) and is today known as American Samoa ; the western islands, by far the greater landmass, became known as German Samoa after Britain vacated all claims to Samoa and accepted termination of German rights in Tonga and certain areas in the Solomon Islands and West Africa.

Both of these dominant cultures have a large and central shrine which still exists today, Ise Shrine in the South West and Izumo Taisha in the North East.

Southern Cameroons today makes up the two English-speaking regions of the Republic of Cameroun, the North West and South West regions.

The University of Rochester's campus was originally in downtown Rochester at the United States Hotel, which was located on Buffalo Street near Elizabeth Street, which today is West Main Street near the I-490 overpass.

The largest group settled in Upper Canada ( called Canada West from 1841, and today Southern Ontario ), where numerous Black Canadian communities developed.

The West was now glad to propose the 1919 Curzon Line, which was substantially Russia's 1941 border, as the boundary between Russia and Poland.

Stalin declared that he preferred to continue the war a little longer, `` although it costs us blood '', in order to give Poland compensation in the West at the expense of the Germans.

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.

Historically the languages were spoken over a larger area: West to the mouth of the Vistula river in present-day Poland, at least as far East as the Dniepr river in present-day Belarus, perhaps even to Moscow, perhaps as far south as Kiev.

German dock workers went on strike, refusing to unload shipments of military supplies send from the West to aid the Polish army, and Poland realized the need for a port city it was in complete control of, economically and politically.

The GDR had an area of 107, 771 km < sup > 2 </ sup > ( 41, 610 mi < sup > 2 </ sup >), bordering Czechoslovakia to the south, West Germany to the south and west, Poland to the east, and the Baltic Sea to the north.

The Drake well is often referred to as the " first " commercial oil well, although that title is also claimed for wells in Azerbaijan, Ontario, West Virginia, and Poland, among others.

The independence of Poland had been campaigned for in the West by Dmowski and Ignacy Paderewski.

Other variations of the name: Kassubians, Cassubians, or ( sometimes ) Kashubes are a West Slavic ethnic group in Pomerelia, north-central Poland.

Kołobrzeg () is a city in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in north-western Poland with some 50, 000 inhabitants ( as of 2000 ).

The transfer to Poland decided at Potsdam in 1945 was officially recognized by East Germany in 1950, by West Germany under Chancellor Willy Brandt in the Treaty of Warsaw signed in 1970, and finally by the reunited Germany by the Two Plus Four Agreement in 1990.

Polish ( język polski, polszczyzna ) is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland ( being that country's official language ) and by Polish minorities in other countries.

Despite the pressure of non-Polish administrations in Poland, who have often attempted to suppress the Polish language, a rich literature has developed over the centuries, and the language is currently the largest, in terms of speakers, of the West Slavic group.

In recent years, Poland has extended its responsibilities and position in European and Western affairs, supporting and establishing friendly foreign relations with both the West and with numerous European countries.

The Poles have forged special relationships with Lithuania and particularly Ukraine in an effort to firmly anchor these states to the West .|| See Poland – United States relations

In the Historiography of the Cold War, a controversy over negationist historical revisionism exists, where numerous revisionist scholars in the West have been accused of whitewashing the crimes of Stalinism, overlooking the Katyn massacre in Poland and disregarding the validity of the Venona messages with regards to Soviet espionage in the United States.

Ryszard Kukliński believed that he would be able to prevent the war in Europe between the Warsaw Pact and NATO countries by handing in 40, 265 pages of secret military documents of East Germany and People's Republic of Poland to CIA in West Germany

Sixth-largest in area but only fourteenth in overall population among Germany's sixteen Bundesländer, it is bounded to the north by the Baltic Sea, to the west by Schleswig-Holstein, to the southwest by Lower Saxony, to the south by Brandenburg, and to the east by the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Kohl confirmed that historically German territories east of the Oder-Neisse line were definitively part of the Republic of Poland, thereby finally ending the West German territorial claims.

Since the Northern Crusades Estonia became a battleground for centuries where Denmark, Germany, Russia, Sweden and Poland fought their many wars over controlling the important geographical position of the country as a gateway between East and West.