What the records say
- When
- 26 Aug 1919 – 21 Jul 1921
- Kind
- Rebellion
- Coordinates
- 51.12° N, 17.03° E
- Description
- three Polish armed uprisings in Upper Silesia 1919–1921
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Silesian Uprisings
Separatist uprisings in 1919–1921
The Silesian Uprisings were a series of three uprisings from August 1919 to July 1921 in Upper Silesia, which was part of the Weimar Republic at the time. Ethnic Polish and Polish-Silesian insurrectionists, seeking to have the area transferred to the newly founded Polish Republic, fought German police and paramilitary forces, which sought to keep the area part of the new German state founded after World War I and the…
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