Polish claims on Silesia were manufactured from a selective twelfth-century dynastic past.

Evidence

This “Piast” vision, tied to the Polish Piast dynasty that had controlled the region in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, i rst crystallized in the writings of the nineteenth-century Polish nationalist Roman Dmowski, and the rhetoric of Silesia as a “recovered territory” ( Ziemie Odzyskane ) became the dominant narrative in postwar Poland. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 239

Categorization

• XREF: Parallel case to the Norman Yoke myth and other invented pasts used to legitimate territorial claims in my reading. — connects to: Both German expellees and Polish settlers manufactured usable historical pasts to justify claims — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 196; German nationalists framed Silesia as a threatened borderland needing German civilizing settlement. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 239