Talk:Leszno

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I added the NPOV tag to the Leszno article. The article now is about German settlers who created the town of "Lissa" and nowhere mentions that Leszno was ever in Poland - which it was continuously since it has been first mentioned in the sources (1393) to the Third Partition of Poland 1795. Could someone help improving the article? I believe the Polish Wikipedia article is much better and can be used as a template. ProudPomeranian 06:13, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I actually forgot to add the NPOV tag. That's even better because I have now almost finished writhing the History section of the page. I used the Polish and German versions of the page as sources. My text is only short in info on the German period (1793-1919) because even the German article has only info on administrative changes in the Province of Posen, not very interesting to reader of an English language version of the article. I omitted also similar non-important info from the Polish version (especially for 1945-present). The 2000 European Comission prize comes, by the way, from the German article. I thank here its authiors on a very good job. Danke, Freunde! I tried to give the Germans their due, the German name of the city (Lissa) is mentioned three times in the article which I believe is just right as the city belonged to a German speaking country only for about 20% of its recorded history.

The History section of Leszno article is paying my debt to the family of my father which was resettled from Leszno during the winter of 1939/1940 by the Nazi occupants, especially to my German born grandmother who refused to accept the citizenship of the Third Reich. Cześć jej pamięci!

--ProudPomeranian 16:21, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

False information[edit]

This led to a significant decline of ethnic Germans, whose number within the district decreased from 31,033 in 1910 to 9,917 in 1926 and further to 8,371 in 1934.^[1]

The above can't be correct-in 1905 the city had only 16.000 citizens. If it is about the districty of Leszczynskie then it should be in Leszno County.Also it should be clarified if the numbers are difference in census data. After all the German Empire falsified its resuls to justify the German control of Polish areas and counted military and stationed clerks as local German population.--MyMoloboaccount (talk) 15:51, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am doing a project for a class, and I will be editing this article soon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Natniem08 (talk • contribs) 18:42, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Kotowski, Albert S. (1998). Polens Politik gegenüber seiner deutschen Minderheit 1919-1939 (in German). Forschungsstelle Ostmitteleuropa, University of Dortmund. p. 56. ISBN 3-447-03997-3.

Nationalist propaganda[edit]

This is yet another joke propaganda page by fanatical Polish nationalists on Wikipedia. The claims on this page cannot be found in any other books than Polish nationalists'. This kind of 'fuelling the fire' should be disallowed. 2A00:23C4:B617:7D01:68A2:86E2:986F:23A9 (talk) 08:38, 29 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Kotowski, Albert S. (1998). Polens Politik gegenüber seiner deutschen Minderheit 1919-1939 (in German). Forschungsstelle Ostmitteleuropa, University of Dortmund. p. 56. ISBN 3-447-03997-3.

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