Silesia was the most productive and populous of Germany’s lost eastern provinces.

Evidence

In contrast to Pomerania (divided between East Germany and Poland) and East Prussia (divided between Poland and the USSR), nearly all of Silesia became part of postwar Poland. At the same time, as the most productive and heavily populated province lost from within the 1937 borders (though eastern Upper Silesia had already been lost in 1921), it became the ofi cial narrative’s highest priority for border revision. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 218

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s border-revision and manufactured-grievance research: which lost province became the official narrative’s top priority shapes which revisionist politics had the strongest constituency. — connects to: Silesia was Germany’s richest lost province, anchored by heavy industry and Breslau. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 236

Broader Connections

• Silesia was Germany’s richest lost province, anchored by heavy industry and Breslau. #corroborates (0.92) — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 236