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During and after World War II

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Silesia Yesterday and Today

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Throughout most of the war Silesia had been a kind of air-raid shelter for all Germany. Many evacuees from the West found a refuge here and a number of administrative departments were transferred to the Silesian mountains. The population also increased considerably through the relocation of industrial plants, Breslau thus grew from 626,ooo to about one million inhabitants.

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    Albert A. Scholz

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Scholz, A.A. (1964). During and after World War II. In: Silesia Yesterday and Today. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6539-8_11

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