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  1. 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia
    Date: 01.01.1920
    Image text: 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia, history, politics until 1945, Poland
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00315049
  2. The Upper Silesia-house in Gliwice Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: The Upper Silesia-house in Gliwice
    Date: 01.01.1920
    Image text: The hotel 'Upper Silesia' in Gliwice, Silesia.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00030302
  3. 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia
    Date: 01.01.1919
    Image text: 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia, history, politics until 1945, Poland
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00315041
  4. Group photo of Freikorps members, 1919 SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Group photo of Freikorps members, 1919
    Date: 01.01.1919
    Image text: Soldiers of a Freikorps unit pose during the first Polish uprising in Upper Silesia with their Gewehr 98 guns and a machine gun. On the ammunition boxes in the foreground swastikas were painted as an expression of their political conviction. In the second row from below in the middle with white hat is the later SA leader Edmund Heines.
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00295481
  5. Upper Silesian border guards, 1919 SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Upper Silesian border guards, 1919
    Date: 01.01.1919
    Image text: Soldiers of the Upper Silesian Border Guard, a volunteer unit formed of Freikorps members during the Polish uprisings in Upper Silesia, equip their headquarters in Opole with telephone lines.
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00295465
  6. 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia
    Date: 01.01.1920
    Image text: 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia, history, politics until 1945, Poland
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00315045
  7. 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia
    Date: 01.01.1920
    Image text: 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia, history, politics until 1945, Poland
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00315048
  8. 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia
    Date: 01.01.1921
    Image text: 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia, history, politics until 1945, Poland
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00315047
  9. 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia
    Date: 01.01.1919
    Image text: 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia, history, politics until 1945, Poland
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00315044
  10. Soldiers of the Upper Silesian Border Guard, 1919 SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Soldiers of the Upper Silesian Border Guard, 1919
    Date: 01.01.1919
    Image text: Soldiers of the Border Guards, made up of Freikorps members, pose in front of an armored train at the railway station in Kreuzburg (Polish: Kluczbork) during the first Polish uprising in Upper Silesia.
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00295466
  11. Riots in Upper Silesia, 1919 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Riots in Upper Silesia, 1919
    Date: 01.01.1919
    Image text: German soldiers, presumably members of a Freikorps look at the trenches dug out by Poles during the riots in Upper Silesia.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00085507
  12. A devastated shop after the Polish uprising in Upper Silesia Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: A devastated shop after the Polish uprising in Upper Silesia
    Date: 01.01.1919
    Image text: A German business in Langendorf that was devastated and plundered during the Polish uprising.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00085536
  13. Border guard in the German-Czech border area, 1919 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Border guard in the German-Czech border area, 1919
    Date: 01.01.1919
    Image text: 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 years after the war. The photo shows a Silesian border guard in county Glatz on the Silesian-Czech border in the disputed village of Schlansy.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00087268
  14. 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia
    Date: 01.01.1920
    Image text: 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia, history, politics until 1945, Poland
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00315040
  15. 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia
    Date: 01.01.1920
    Image text: 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia, history, politics until 1945, Poland
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00315050
  16. 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia
    Date: 01.01.1920
    Image text: 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia, history, politics until 1945, Poland
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00315046
  17. 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia
    Date: 01.01.1919
    Image text: 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia, history, politics until 1945, Poland
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00315039
  18. 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia
    Date: 03.05.1921
    Image text: 1919-01.09.1939 German-polish relation: Upper Silesia, history, politics until 1945, Poland
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00315042
  19. Soldiers of the Assault Division Rossbach, 1919 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Soldiers of the Assault Division Rossbach, 1919
    Date: 01.01.1919
    Image text: Members of the so-called Assault Division Rossbach, a volunteer group, which was involved in the fighting against Polish volunteers in Upper Silesia, after the occupation of Kulmbach.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00063978
  20. German Free Corps soldiers with captured Polish guerrillas in 1919 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: German Free Corps soldiers with captured Polish guerrillas in 1919
    Date: 01.01.1919
    Image text: 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 Upper Silesia, before the referendum on 20.03.1920. There were fights with the German Self protection and Free Corps soldiers.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00060077
  21. Wroclaw high school students as volunteers for border protection, 1919 SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Wroclaw high school students as volunteers for border protection, 1919
    Date: 01.01.1919
    Image text: For the fighting between Germans and Poles, many students registered at the Freikorps and the border guards, as these boys in Breslau, who are on their way to their training place.
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00295737
  22. Armed Germans in Upper Silesia, 1919 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Armed Germans in Upper Silesia, 1919
    Date: 01.06.1919
    Image text: Members of the German self defense force guard a train on the Oder bridge near Oppeln.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00063974
  23. First uprising in Upper Silesia, 1919 SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: First uprising in Upper Silesia, 1919
    Date: 01.08.1919
    Image text: In August 1919 the so-called Black Reichswehr, an association of several Freikorps units, defeated the first Polish uprising in Upper Silesia. Here Freikorp units fight around the station in Myslowitz.
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00295486
  24. German border soldiers during the laying of a telephone line in Opole, Upper Silesia, 1919 SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: German border soldiers during the laying of a telephone line in Opole, Upper Silesia, 1919
    Date: 01.09.1919
    Image text: Soldiers of the border guards equip the building of the German border guard commando with a telephone line.
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00295738
  25. Reichswehr soldiers protect die Myslowitzer pit, 1919 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Reichswehr soldiers protect die Myslowitzer pit, 1919
    Date: 15.09.1919
    Image text: Soldiers of the German Reichswehr protect the Myslowitzer pit in Upper Silesia. They have been summoned there to protect the border against Polish attacks and to curb riots. In August 1919, it came to a Polish invasion in Upper Silesia with occupation of the circles Myslowitz, Katowice and Bytom.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00078776
  26. Battle between German troops and Polish insurgents in Upper Silesia, 1919 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Battle between German troops and Polish insurgents in Upper Silesia, 1919
    Date: 09.10.1919
    Image text: 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 Versailles in 1919, it comes to a battle between Polish volunteers, who try to acquire additional parts of Upper Silesia, and German government troops of the border guard. The Polish uprising is downed.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00082092
  27. Reichswehr soldiers before the attack on Nikischacht, 1919 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Reichswehr soldiers before the attack on Nikischacht, 1919
    Date: 09.10.1919
    Image text: After the outbreak of riots in Upper Silesia on 20 August 1919, the Reich government sent troops to Upper Silesia, in order to suppress the rebellion of the Polish population. On the day of the outbreak of riots, the Polish government broke off the negotiations with the Reich Government on issues of territorial concessions. The negotiations were led by the governments of both states under the provisions of the Versailles Treaty, after the allies recognized Poland as an independent state, granted it with large parts of the Prussian provinces of Posen and West Prussia, and earmarked a referendum on the national belonging of other parts of West Prussia, Upper Silesia and Mazury.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00078786
  28. Polish volunteers want to annex Upper Silesia to Poland 1920 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Polish volunteers want to annex Upper Silesia to Poland 1920
    Date: 01.01.1920
    Image text: 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 tried to occupy Upper Silesia even before the referendum.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00060081
  29. Manifestations of the â??Associations of native faithful people of Upper Silesia' in Wroclaw, 1920 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Manifestations of the â??Associations of native faithful people of Upper Silesia' in Wroclaw, 1920
    Date: 01.01.1920
    Image text: The district group of the â??United associations of native faithful people of Upper Silesia' organizes a meeting in Wroclaw for Upper Silesian people who are entitled to vote in Wroclaw. The provisions of the Versailles Treaty provided for a referendum on the national affiliation of Upper Silesia. With the Treaty of Versailles, the Allies had recognized Poland as an independent state and granted it large parts of the Prussian provinces of Posen and West Prussia. On the national affiliation of other parts of West Prussia and Mazury a referendum was also provided as in the case of Upper Silesia.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00078787
  30. Awarding of a French officer in Upper Silesia Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Awarding of a French officer in Upper Silesia
    Date: 01.01.1920
    Image text: 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 February 1920 the governmental power in the voting area (until 14 July 1922). Soldiers from France (13,000) and Italy (2,000) invade the country. The Americans and British renounced to send troops.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00085491
  31. Polish volunteers during the fights for Upper Silesia 1920 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Polish volunteers during the fights for Upper Silesia 1920
    Date: 01.01.1920
    Image text: 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 Self-protection organizations.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00060080
  32. Fights between Poles and Germans at Upper Silesia in 1920 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Fights between Poles and Germans at Upper Silesia in 1920
    Date: 01.01.1920
    Image text: Armed Polish and German volunteers in battle. The Polish commander Korfanty tried to occupy Upper Silesia for Poland still before the referendum.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00060079
  33. Riots against Germans in Upper Silesia, 1920s Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Riots against Germans in Upper Silesia, 1920s
    Date: 01.01.1920
    Image text: 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, the population had voted en masse for the German party.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00120186
  34. entry of the first Italian troops in Katowice, 1920 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: entry of the first Italian troops in Katowice, 1920
    Date: 01.01.1920
    Image text: 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 (IK), led by General Henry Le Rond took over on 11 February 1920 the governmental power in the voting area (until 14 July 1922). Soldiers from France (13,000) and Italy (2,000) invade the country. The Americans and British waived to send troops.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00085490
  35. French soldiers at the railway station of Gliwice, around the 1920s SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: French soldiers at the railway station of Gliwice, around the 1920s
    Date: 01.01.1920
    Image text: Allied soldiers at the elections in Upper Silesia. Here, they clean and guard the station in Gliwice (undated photo) together with the police.
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00295743
  36. The population of Upper Silesia welcome the arrival of German soldiers, around the 1920s SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: The population of Upper Silesia welcome the arrival of German soldiers, around the 1920s
    Date: 01.01.1920
    Image text: Inhabitants of an Upper Silesian city rejoice with German troops that march with swinging hats (Undated photo).
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00295747
  37. Withdrawal of English soldiers from Opole, around the 1920s SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Withdrawal of English soldiers from Opole, around the 1920s
    Date: 01.01.1920
    Image text: The Allied soldiers, who observed the Upper Silesian elections, finally withdrew from the occupation area. Here Englishmen march out of Oppeln (Undated photo).
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00295735
  38. French soldiers patrol during riots in Katowice, 1920/21 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: French soldiers patrol during riots in Katowice, 1920/21
    Date: 01.01.1920
    Image text: 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 remain in Germany.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00085495
  39. Polish troops march into Thorn, 1918 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Polish troops march into Thorn, 1918
    Date: 18.01.1920
    Image text: Entry of the Polish troops in Thorn (present day: Torun). According to the provisions in the Treaty of Versailles West Prussia becomes Polish.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00062284
  40. Devastated apartment of the German sergeant in Kosel-Oderhafen, 1920 SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Devastated apartment of the German sergeant in Kosel-Oderhafen, 1920
    Date: 01.03.1920
    Image text: Shortly before the election in March there were violent battles between Germans and Poles in Upper Silesia. In the photo the apartment of the officer Tilgner devastated by Poles. Clothing, pillows and furniture were destroyed.
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00295750
  41. French soldiers and German Schutzpolizisten (protection police) in Opole, 1920 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: French soldiers and German Schutzpolizisten (protection police) in Opole, 1920
    Date: 05.07.1920
    Image text: French soldiers (left) encounter German Schutzpolizisten (protection policemen) in a street in Opole. Allied troops occupied Silesia during the course of the scheduled voting after the Versailles Treaty.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00085499
  42. Burnt houses in the German village of Anhalt in Upper Silesia, 1920 SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Burnt houses in the German village of Anhalt in Upper Silesia, 1920
    Date: 01.08.1920
    Image text: In August 1920, Polish rebels burnt down several houses of the German settlement, which was entirely surrounded by Polish villages. In the picture the ruins of the destroyed houses.
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00295751
  43. Militia during riots in Upper Silesia, 1920 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Militia during riots in Upper Silesia, 1920
    Date: 01.08.1920
    Image text: A militia made up of Germans and Poles guard a factory in Huta Laury during the second Polish uprising in Upper Silesia, in order to prevent destructions.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00085525
  44. A German Schutzpolizist and Polish border guards in Upper Silesia, 1920 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: A German Schutzpolizist and Polish border guards in Upper Silesia, 1920
    Date: 17.08.1920
    Image text: A German Schutzpolizist (police officer) (left) and Polish border guards on a railway bridge at the former German-Polish border at Myslowice.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00085494
  45. Hoisting of the flag in front of the house of the plebiscite commission in Katowice, 1920 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Hoisting of the flag in front of the house of the plebiscite commission in Katowice, 1920
    Date: 01.10.1920
    Image text: 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 the magistrate (right) must attend the renewed hoisting of the flags. On the left are French soldiers.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00085522
  46. German Schutzpolizisten at the Polish uprising in Upper Silesia, 1920 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: German Schutzpolizisten at the Polish uprising in Upper Silesia, 1920
    Date: 01.10.1920
    Image text: Security policemen on the road towards Bogucice during the second Polish uprising in Upper Silesia.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00085483
  47. Grave for victims of the Polish uprising in Upper Silesia, 1920 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Grave for victims of the Polish uprising in Upper Silesia, 1920
    Date: 26.10.1920
    Image text: 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 Polish uprising.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00085529
  48. Destroyed bridge in Upper Silesia, 1921 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Destroyed bridge in Upper Silesia, 1921
    Date: 01.01.1921
    Image text: A railway bridge near Opole destroyed during the third Polish uprising.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00085533
  49. British troops march through Opole during the Polish uprising, 1921 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: British troops march through Opole during the Polish uprising, 1921
    Date: 01.01.1921
    Image text: Members of a Scottish regiment march through Opole during the third Polish uprising led by Wojciech Korfanty.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00085497
  50. German Selbstschutz (self-protection) in Upper Silesia, 1921 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: German Selbstschutz (self-protection) in Upper Silesia, 1921
    Date: 01.01.1921
    Image text: A German armored train at the station of Opole, which should be used at the third Polish uprising led by Wojciech Korfanty. The soldiers belong to one of the many "Selbstschutz" units formed out of the population.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00085496
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