Breslau
Oder River city
Breslau is the German name for Wrocław, a city in southwestern Poland.
The city was part of Germany until 1945, when it was transferred to Poland after World War II and its German population expelled.
The German name still appears in historical contexts: My grandmother was born in Breslau before the war.
Former German kingdom
- WehrmachtNazi Germany's armed forces
- ReichstagGerman parliamentary assembly
- BismarckPrussia's unifying statesman
- FrederickName meaning serene monarch
Brandenburg · Teutonic · Lutheran · Wilhelm · Iron Cross · expulsion · annexation · wartime
Of the Middle Ages
- HanseaticOf medieval trading alliance
- fortificationsDefensive barriers against attack
- cathedralBishop's principal church
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
burghers · guilds · dukes · Piast dynasty · Bohemian · Habsburg · baroque · renaissance
Chief Polish river
- repatriationFormal return to homeland
- resettlementReestablishing in new place
- postwarAfter hostilities end
- reconstructionRebuilding after destruction
Prussia
Former German kingdom
- WehrmachtNazi Germany's armed forces
- ReichstagGerman parliamentary assembly
- BismarckPrussia's unifying statesman
Frederick · Brandenburg · Teutonic · Lutheran · Wilhelm · Iron Cross · expulsion · annexation · wartime · capitulation
medieval
Of the Middle Ages
- HanseaticOf medieval trading alliance
- fortificationsDefensive barriers against attack
- cathedralBishop's principal church
heritage · burghers · guilds · dukes · Piast dynasty · Bohemian · Habsburg · baroque · renaissance · reformation
Vistula
Chief Polish river
- repatriationFormal return to homeland
- resettlementReestablishing in new place
- postwarAfter hostilities end
dwarfs
Makes appear smaller
- gnomesMythical earth-dwelling dwarfs
- BattlesAntietam, Leipzig, Gettysburg, Waterloo, Bunker Hill
- Polish Historypartitions, Piast dynasty, Pulaski, September 1939, Warsaw Ghetto
- Prussian LandsPrussia, East Prussia, Brandenburg, Pomerania, Schleswig-Holstein
- Wroclawdwarfs, gnomes, Opera House, Christmas market
- WWI Navalbattleship, cruiser, destroyer, submarine, U-boat
- Hanseatic CitiesLubeck, Hamburg, Bremen, Danzig, Gdansk