Warmians (ethnic group)

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Warmians
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Warmians

Roman Catholic and speak in the Warmian subdialect of Polish or the High Prussian or Low Prussian dialects of German.[1]

History

Between the 14th and 17th centuries, settlers from northern,

The

Ducal Prussia became Protestants when Duchy adopted Lutheranism in the 16th century, most Warmiaks, populating the areas around Olsztyn, remained Catholics.[2][3]

During World War II, the Warmiaks were persecuted by the Nazi German government, which wanted to erase all aspects of Polish culture and Polish language in Warmia.[2][3]

After the war, due to their Polish roots, they were not victims of the large-scale expulsion of Germans, but over the course of time, large numbers of Warmiaks decided to leave their native land and settle in more prosperous West Germany, exercising their right to German citizenship granted by the Basic Law as citizens or their descendants of inhabitants of Germany in the borders of 1937.[2][3]

Notes

  1. ^ Polish: Warmiacy, singular: Warmiak; German: Ermlander

References

  1. ^ Łukasz Ruch: Moja i ich gwara, in: Variart, March 2016. p. 4-5.
  2. ^ a b c d S. Achremczyk: Warmia, Olsztyn 2000.
  3. ^ a b c d S. Achremczyk: Historia Warmii i Mazur, Olsztyn 1997