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Upper Silesia

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Upper Silesia
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Upper Silesia
n
(Placename) a region of SW Poland, formerly ruled by Germany: coal mining and other heavy industry


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Located in Poland's southern Upper Silesia region, Lubowice was part of Germany prior to World War II and in 1788 the birthplace of Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, one of Germany's most celebrated romantic writers and poets.
At the end of his sentence he was sent, first, to a camp at Heydebreck in Upper Silesia, where he worked in a brick factory, loading and unloading cement, bricks, sand, etc.
 
 
 
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