Talk:Poles in Germany

message: People should not be included on this list just by virtue of their last name. Some other aditional connection to Poland should exist, otherwise you will end up declaring that Pierre Littbarski is Polish and Leszek Miller and Václav Klaus are German - which whould be rather silly. Travelbird 23:39, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

message: No one calls a German Polish-German just because he happens to have a Polish ancestor. To be considered  Polish-German you either have to have immigrated from Poland to Germany or otherwise have strong connections to Poland. Last but not least we should look whether someone sees himself as "Polish German" or not.--217.85.127.78 00:03, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Polish-Germans refers to German citizens of Polish descent." 

message: How about German Poles ? --Lysytalk 17:50, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Polish minority in Germany and German minority in Poland are much less confusing terms, I think.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  19:17, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  German Poles 

message: The pre-WW2 Polish minority in Germany was divided in five regions:
* Region I: Silesia
* Region II – Berlin, Hamburg, Mecklenburg, Pomerania
* Region III – Rhineland and Westphalia (Poles made about 20% of Ruhr population)
* Region IV – East Prussia
* Region V – borderland and Kashubia
Regions I, V and part of IV belong to Poland now. What about the minority rights of the Poles who remained in Regions II and III ? --Lysytalk 19:55, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polish minority 

message: In 2011, 468.481 people with Polish citizenship were living in Germany (). I wonder where the number of 2 million comes from. 
Some numbers appear to be not substantiated. On the web page of the Polish embassy in Germany (in German) you can read that the number of Poles in Weimar Republic was about 2 millions. However, when you look at the election results (and during Weimar times these were undoubtedly free and democratic elections) Polish political parties hardly got 100.000 votes in any election. One gets the impression that many people counted as "Poles" here did or do not feel as such. Not every person with a Polish family name is a Pole. Just imagine how many "Germans" would live in todays Czech Republic if you counted every person with a German family name. --Furfur (talk) 11:02, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Issue is still not solved, so POV issue. The census data had migration data -- birthplace Poland does NOT indicate Polish ethnicity. --Tino Cannst (talk) 13:22, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Numbers of Poles

message: So，in the common research,figure out there are 2 million residents were from poland,most of them are immigrants or have migrate background（came to germany after 1955）,but there also said about 2-3 million may be of polish ancestry（from english wiki），so is that means the total population of poles in germany is around 4-5 million?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nero011 (talk • contribs) 11:48, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  some confusions about the number of poles 

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