Upper Silesia,a forgotten region in Central Europe |
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| Authors: | Adolf Kühnemann |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Economics, Wyzsza Szko a Pedagogiczna Opole, Ozimska 46 a, 45086 Opole, Poland |
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| Abstract: | On the map of Europe, forming the south-western border region of Poland, is to be found the name  Silesia , with in many cases its southern part emphasized — Upper Silesia. Any search for statistics as to its exact surface area and population size will be in vain. At the end of World War I, Upper Silesia found itself squeezed between two nationalistically-obsessed peoples, and economically too attractive to both to be allowed to play an idependent political role, as it had for centuries. Upper Silesia was in 1921 divided. After World War II, under the communist centralised power system, a completely colonial robber economy was pursued. Because of the coal production there is now here one of the greatest agglomeration areas in Europe, with an ageing heavy industry and a catastropihcally damaged environment. |
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