[RussianBoor]

And you are making a fool of yourself.

Pot calling the kettle black :-))

Keep reading. It helps.

Silesia was mostly German since 13th century AD. Especially Germanized were cities. Polish was spoken only in villages. There have been also lots of Jews who spoke also German or Yiddish, a version of German. The only reason Silesia is now not German is the evil communist Soviet Union which insisted on separating it from Germany and incorporating into Poland. After that many German inhabitants were forced out. You of course think of it as an evil ethnic cleansing by communists and Russians and vigorously denounce what you think is the same policy in Latvia. Which does not preclude you from enjoying the results of this evil policy.

[twinself]

If you said that German was spoken in Silesian towns starting 13th century I would agree. Actually the same could be said about Flemish. Towns were set upon so called "German law" by both Polish and German settlers (Zlotoryja, Lwowek were examples of German settlements). But I repeat: SILESIA WAS NOT MOSTLY GERMAN SINCE 13 TH CENTURY. It is a silly lie, believe me. Short recap from Silesia's history:

1000 - Christian episcopate in Wroclaw is constituted by Boleslaw Chrobry

1138 - Polish king Boleslaw Krzywousty divides his land into smaller prinipalities, Silesia goes to his son Wladyslaw.

1348 - Polish king Kasimir the Great gives Silesia to Czech Jagiellon - Jan of Luxemburg after peace treaty of Namyslow (Czech Bohemia was an autononymous part of Roman Empire of course).

1526 - Austrian Habsburgs start to rule Silesia.

Silesia became Prussian in 1741 after the battle of Malujowice lost by Austrian Habsburgs to Prussian Hohenzellerns.

It only became German in 1871 after German Empire consituted as a separate country. :)