Original sentence: Official maps were drawn up to show that the Polish frontiers under the first known Piast princes matched the new ones, and, according to Norman Davies, it wa suggested to the youth that "the Polish nation had evolved on that territory since time immemorial", and that the post-war Polish terriory constituted the macierz'' ("motherland") - "fixed over time even if occupied by "aliens" and regardless of multiple border and population changes in history.The term "Recovered Territories" was the official propaganda term coined in the aftermath of World War II to denote the former eastern territories of Germany that were being handed over to Poland
Edited sentence: As Norman Davies put it: "In Poland since the War, a whole generation has been instructed to assume that the present fronties of the People's Republic surround the territory on which the Polish nation has evolved since time immemorial.In 1945 the Western Institute () was founded to coordinate the scientific activities.It was our mission to present the Polish history of these countries and to project the current Polish reality of these countries upon their historical background.Its director, Zygmunt Wojciechowski, characterized his mission as follows: "We don't try for the so called objective historiography.Official maps were drawn up to show that the Polish frontiers under the first known Piast princes matched the new ones.The sciences were responsible for the development of this perception of history.The term "Recovered Territories''" was the official propaganda term coined in the aftermath of World War II to denote the former eastern territories of Germany that were being handed over to Poland.Their findings were popularised in countless monographs, periodicals, schoolbooks, travel guides, broadcasts and exhibitions.They are encouraged to believe that the Polish macierz or "Motherland" has always occupied this same fixed location, even when large parts of it happened to be inhabited for centuries by large numbers of "aliens", or when political boundaries happened to run in completely different directions