Treaty of Zgorzelec
The agreement Görlitz ( Görlitz as a border treaty called ) on the border between the German Democratic Republic and Poland was signed on 6 July 1950 by the representatives of both countries in Zgorzelec, now the Polish part of Görlitz.
On 5 and 6 June 1950, the East German government sent a delegation under the leadership of Walter Ulbricht in the People's Republic of Poland, in Warsaw signed a corresponding declaration of where the border between the two states with the Polish government under Józef Cyrankiewicz. The signature on this declaration was made after internal discussions under pressure from the Soviet Union. That boundary line broadly followed the Oder -Neisse line, so later " Oder- Neisse border " respectively " Oder-Neisse border of peace " in the official DDR parlance. This was first referred to in the Federal Republic of Germany as a demarcation line, as they did not constitute a legally recognized international boundary. A month later, this boundary line in Görlitz agreement was noted, however, the East German government renounced despite the first unsolved problem on the island of Usedom on the enforcement of border corrections. Also the division of various towns and villages along the Oder and Neisse was how Kuestrin, Frankfurt ( Oder), Guben and Görlitz, and the loss of Szczecin and Swinoujscie accepted without opposition.
The agreement was the result of 1945 signed at the Potsdam Conference " Agreement concerning the western border of Poland ", which, at the instigation of Joseph Stalin, the Oder- Neisse border provisionally placed and instead of the Glatzer Neisse, which and as a border river between Poland during the Second World War temporarily Germany was in conversation, the Lusatian Neisse certain as Poland's western border. A demarcation along the Oder and Neisse the Glatzer would have to remain large parts of Silesia in Germany means that the cities Grünberg, Waldenburg and Hirschberg had remained German, Polish Wroclaw would have only the north-eastern part.
Although the federal government was in fact ever since the 1970 Treaty of Warsaw is no more claims to the territories east of the Oder- Neisse line, recognized the border but finally only in the course of the two- plus-four talks in to the reunification process between the two German States not to compromise. The German - Polish Border Treaty was confirmed by international law on 14 November 1990. Again, should the concerns of neighboring European states against a resurgent Germany, particularly in Poland, be invalidated.