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The Jędrychowski article of 18 December 1944 in Pravda had sounded the tocsins in both London and Washington. The PKWN’s seemingly exorbitant territorial demands were confirmed by its Director of Information and Propaganda in black and white. What made this news more ominous than Chairman Edward Osóbka-Morawski’s press statements a few months earlier was that the claims now had the undeniable support of the highest echelons in the Kremlin. The ensuing debate over the future Polish—German frontier was to occupy the attention of the leading statesmen with increasing frequency up to and including the Potsdam Conference of July–August 1945. The Oder—western Neisse line was the result of these protracted deliberations.
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Siebel-Achenbach, S. (1994). Sovereignty Transformed: Yalta and Potsdam. In: Lower Silesia from Nazi Germany to Communist Poland, 1942–49. St Antony’s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23216-1_5
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