Upper Silesia

American  

noun

1. a highly industrialized region divided between Germany and Poland after World War I.

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Upper Silesia British  

noun

1. a region of SW Poland, formerly ruled by Germany: coal mining and other heavy industry

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Example Sentences

“Our hypothesis is that the source of the high salinity levels are most probably brine waters pumped from Upper Silesia into the Oder and the Vistula,” said the author of the tests and a Greenpeace expert, Leszek Pazderski of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun.

From Seattle Times

After he was deported to Ottmuth, a concentration camp in Upper Silesia, and eventually to Buchenwald, what helped him survive, he later said, was his skill as an entertainer; he would perform song-and-dance routines for other prisoners, and often for SS guards as well.

From New York Times

The girls’ work was soon expanded to include the Danzig area in West Prussia and Upper Silesia.

From Literature

On August 31, 1939, the SS dressed in Polish uniforms and launched a fake attack on a German radio station in Gleiwitz, in Upper Silesia, in southwest Poland.

From Literature

At age twenty-six, Virchow wrote passionately that terrible social conditions in an impoverished part of Germany called Upper Silesia were the cause of a malaria and dysentery epidemic.

From Literature