The German Interior Ministry has rejected the request of the Union of Poles in Germany (ZPwN) for a living in this country Poles minority status. The decision of the Ministry announced on Saturday attorney ZPwN lawyer Stefan Hambura.
According to the German Ministry of Internal Affairs FRG citizens of Polish origin living permanently in Germany did not meet the conditions necessary for its recognition as a national minority without – according to the German side – population “native and” traditionally sedentary “on these areas.
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More than a month ago Hambura directed to the Government Plenipotentiary. displaced persons and minorities, the Secretary of State in the Ministry of Interior Hartmut Koschyka application for entry in the register of the Polish national minority.
In the explanatory memorandum pointed out that the existing 1922 Union of Poles in Germany was closed after the attack of the Third Reich against Poland in September 1939. Gestapo arrested the nearly 2 thousand. Polish activists, some of them were deported to concentration camps. February 27, 1940 the German government banned the activities ZPwN and confiscated his property. After war activities ZPwN reactivated.
“To this day in Germany inhabited by persons belonging to the Polish minority, which meet the criteria established by the German government,” – writes Polish lawyer. As pointed out, these are the descendants of members of the Polish minority before the war living in the Ruhr, Berlin, Hamburg and other parts of Germany. The German authorities should recognize this fact, regardless of the size of the minority.
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In response to the request of the German Ministry of the Interior ZPwN notes that the German parliament, ratified the 1997 Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, included them only Danes, Fryzyjczyków, Sorbs and Roma. The inclusion of another minority would require amendments to the act of ratification by parliament.
The treaty of good-neighborliness and friendly cooperation in 1991, which is still legal basis for Polish-German relations, speech is – in contrast to the German minority in Poland – ‘persons in Germany, with German citizenship who are of Polish origin or admit to language, culture or tradition of the Polish “. The authors of the Treaty acknowledged the two groups of similar rights, including the right to preserve their identities without any attempt at assimilation against their will.
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The German Polonia was in the period of the formation of a very diverse group Treaty . In addition to having German nationality “old” Polish, whose roots date back to the nineteenth century, in Germany, there were hundreds of thousands of Poles from the “new immigration”, often irregular stay.
The largest group were people who had emigrated from Polish, mainly in the 70s and 80s on the basis of ethnic options as “Germany”, while retaining a sense of Polish identity. The creators of the Treaty of 1991 argued that thanks to the adopted solutions of the rights available to all categories of persons associated with the Polish. The size of all these groups is estimated at two million.
In response to the request of the German Ministry of the Interior Polish notes that the provisions of the Treaty of 1991 are proof that both Berlin and Warsaw have recognized that in Germany no Polish minority. Hambura announced further action, including the entry of a lawsuit.
Author: pk / tr / kwoj / PAP
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