SZ Photo - Uprisings and foreign military presence in Upper Silesia, 1919-1921

01.01.1920 - The hotel 'Upper Silesia' in Gliwice, Silesia. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1919 - German Free Corp. soldiers with captured Polish guerrillas after the battle in Myslowitz. The Polish volunteers tried to enforce with violence the Polish territorial claims in Uppe...
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01.01.1920 - Polish volunteers under Korfanty say goodbye to their wives. They want to conquer Upper Silesia for Poland before the referendum. They get into a fight with German Free Corps and S...
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01.01.1920 - A photo was found at Polish prisoners in the fighting for the Annaberg. In the plate is inscribed: 'Poles, French: good Boches: kaput'. The Polish armed volunteers under Korfanty t...
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18.01.1920 - Entry of the Polish troops in Thorn (present day: Torun). According to the provisions in the Treaty of Versailles West Prussia becomes Polish. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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01.01.1921 - Members of an irregular army made up of local units trained in self defense, parade in Ratibor. These units fought against the attacks of Polish volunteer groups. [XPAEXPORTID00000...
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01.01.1921 - Members of a police unit armed like soldiers in Upper Silesia. The unit was initially formed to protect against the uprising of Polish volunteer groups, but had to be disbanded due...
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01.01.1921 - A division of the self defense forces march to guard the railway stretch of Oppeln Dambrau. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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01.01.1921 - Teams, which have formed a self defense group, on the way to the border. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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09.10.1919 - At the station of Myslowitz in Upper Silesia, the southern part of Silesia which formed a Prussian province after the cession of territory to Poland and the CSR after the Treaty of...
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01.10.1920 - Security policemen on the road towards Bogucice during the second Polish uprising in Upper Silesia. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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01.01.1920 - The entry of the Italian troops in Katowice that were sent in Upper Silesia by the Inter-Allied Commission. The Inter-allied government- and plebiscite commission for Upper Silesia...
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01.01.1920 - A French officer receives an award in Upper Silesia. The Inter-allied government- and plebiscite commission for Upper Silesia (IK), led by General Henry Le Rond takes over on 11 Fe...
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01.01.1920 - During the Polish uprising French infantrymen patrol in Katowice. They took over the military protection of the Katowice-based Inter-Allied Commission during the voting on the rema...
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01.01.1921 - Members of a Scottish regiment march through Opole during the third Polish uprising led by Wojciech Korfanty. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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01.01.1921 - A British officer (left) looks at a blackjack, that was taken away from a captive Pole, during the third Polish uprising led by Wojciech Korfanty. Beside him stands a German Schutz...
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01.01.1921 - A funeral procession for Germans who were killed during the unrest at the third Polish uprising in Opole. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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01.01.1921 - After the outbreak of the Third Polish Uprising German refugees demonstrate in Opole (Opole). The Third Polish Uprising led by Wojciech Korfanty broke out after the referendum from...
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01.01.1921 - French soldiers march through the streets of Gliwice, to supervise the plebiscite on the national affiliation of Upper Silesia on 20 March 1921. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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01.01.1919 - German soldiers, presumably members of a Freikorps look at the trenches dug out by Poles during the riots in Upper Silesia. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.10.1920 - The flags of the Inter-Allied Plebiscite Commission are hoisted in front of the premises of the Commission in Katowice. The German population had burned the flags before and now th...
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28.07.1921 - Members of a German association with weapons of French origin, which were left behind during the third Polish uprising by Polish rebels, among others hand grenades. [XPAEXPORTID000...
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26.10.1920 - A mass grave that contains the bodies of five shot members of the 'Verband heimattreuer Oberschlesier' (United Leagues of Patriotic Upper Silesians), who died during the second Pol...
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01.01.1919 - A German business in Langendorf that was devastated and plundered during the Polish uprising. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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01.01.1921 - A German peasant family before they house that was burnt down during the third Polish uprising in Anhalt (Holdunow) at Pless. [XPAEXPORTID000005]
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01.01.1919 - After the debated cession of the Eastern Regions from the German Reich, German volunteers created border control groups and voluntary corps on the new eastern border in the first y...
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01.01.1921 - German election policemen and British soldiers with backpacks in Opole. Allied troops occupied Silesia during the voting period required after the Treaty of Versailles. [XPAEXPORTI...
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01.01.1920 - Poles have painted skulls on the facade of the head office of the German newspaper 'Oberschlesischer Kurier' in Chorzow in the district Rybrik. At the last elections for the Sejm,...
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