Upper Silesia’s mixed population held fluid national loyalties across the interwar period.

Evidence

Interwar German nationalist attention focused most heavily on Upper Silesia, which, by contrast with predominantly German Lower Silesia, was populated by Germans, Poles, and a large Schlonzok minority, whose Slavic dialect incorporated German elements and whose national favor shifted over time. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 239

Categorization

• XREF: Fluid, situation-dependent national identity echoes the reader’s finding that professed affiliative identity overrides fixed primordial loyalty. — connects to: German nationalists framed Silesia as a threatened borderland needing German civilizing settlement. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 239