The expulsion of ethnic Germans from Poland after the Second World War

The Second World War has been extensively studied by both Western and Eastern scholars alike. But what is less known from the Western perspective is the expulsion of around fourteen million Germans from Poland alone after the conclusion of the war. This was not by happenstance, but rather the result of historical ideologies framed by nationalists within Poland and legitimated by the newly created United Nations. The Western Allies after both the First and Second World Wars were primarily concerned with creating conditions that would placate simmering nationalist tensions in Europe. As such, what we see with the creation of the League of Nations after the First World War would directly result in causing the Second World War. This paper will examine the extent the League of Nations and United Nations interlinked ethnicity and citizenship as a combined ideology within Europe. Through legal documents, newspaper articles, and primary documents of the period, it is determined that the Western Allies had much more influence in promoting and legitimizing Polish nationalism than previously thought.This would directly lead to the actions of expelling millions of ethnic Germans while the Allies turn a blind eye.M.A.Includes bibliographical reference