Filling in the Blank Pages of History. Germans and Poles in Lower Silesia After 1945 – Between Exclusion, Assimilation and Reconciliation

In July 2014, at the invitation of the Centre for Documentation and Information on Silesian Regional Studies in Königswinter-Heisterbacherrott (Haus Schlesien) and other partners, a conference was held on the development of the Walbrzych Industrial District from 1945 to 1958. It was here that nearly 30,000 Germans remained, as the communist government forced miners and specialists to continue working in the smelters and…