I was wondering this, since there were hundreds of thousands of Germans living in Poland before the Second World War, and they obviously got kicked out right after the war. What's stopping those Germans (or their descendants) from buying up properties in Poland and restarting their lives on Polish soil?
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Your question is sound except it ignores a reality in Europe: that of where work is. There is no point moving to an area where there are no jobs, or the work does not pay sufficiently well to meet the fairly high cost of living in Germany, should one choose to work there and sent money back to Germany. This is also the barrier for a new wave of german settlement in Poland. Additionally there is the language barrier: unless one knows both Polish and German, work would be hard to find in Poland.
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Why would they want to move to Germany? There is no point. Life there is obviously better. I'm sure they have better jobs and better pay.
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Funny how little people know about history and about the present. 1. In order to reclaim land that your ancestors owned but is now held and owned by the local people, you have to go to court and prove your legal right. That is the case for all countries, not just Poland and Germany. If the local people have acquired the property legally, it is theirs and you are in bad luck. Only if you can prove that they acquired it illegally do you have a chance. 2. In the EU every citizen can purchase land in another EU state. That is not the same as 'claiming' land. 3. Polish and German people are by large not enemies anymore but are Europeans (with a few exceptions). So the co-exist peacefully. Germany has many times apologised to Poland and to other countries for what they have done in WW2 and most Polish people have accepted the apology and moved on. 4. There are still a few organisations of Schwaben and Sudeten Deutsche, refugees from Eastern Europe from the war times, that claim the lands over there belong to them. But that is all they are, organisations of people who can not let the past go. they have so far been unsuccessful in making their claims. 5. Many Polish people have come to Germany and bought up property to start their lives on German soil - so what?
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