Poole reported that in May 1916 at the officer POW camp in
Neisse: 'we bought a cinematograph from the Germans, and used to give shows three nights a week'.
The post-war conferences affected the cities by the Oder and Lusatian
Neisse Rivers, including Guben.
Another reason was certainly that Nixon's detente worked against Americans of Eastern European origins whose foreign policy claims were motivated by anticommunism (whether the nonrecognition of the permanence of the Oder
Neisse boundary, the rejection of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization plan to lay a nuclear barrage across Poland and Czechoslovakia in the event of a Soviet aggression against Europe, or the opposition to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe).
Until 1970 the Federal Republic of Germany did not accept their western border with Poland placed on the Oder and
Neisse. Therefore, the authorities of the Polish People's Republic usually responded using the political attacks on the Federal Republic of Germany which were related to the 'historical' danger coming from their site.
(143) The meetings are said to have taken place in
Neisse and in Mahrisch-Neustadt respectively.
Opening the meeting and welcoming guests, Thomas
Neisse, Chief Executive Officer of Deka Investment, the investment division of DekaBank, said, "My colleagues and I are very pleased to present DekaBank's expertise today and update you on what we think the prospects for Europe holds.
In the case of Poland, it was agreed to compensate her for the loss of her eastern provinces by granting her a huge portion of eastern Germany, all the way to the Rivers Oder and
Neisse. From those formerly German territories, the German inhabitants were to be forcibly expelled.
259, 262-64 (2005) (describing the debate over and ultimate concession of substantial Polish territory, namely lands east of the Oder and
Neisse rivers, to the Soviet Union).
He hoped to assign a large swath of German land east of the Oder and
Neisse rivers--including almost all of Silesia--to a resurrected Polish state.
A burst dam sent a flood wave down the
Neisse River separating Germany from Poland, putting parts of the twin cities of the German Polish border underwater.
The town of Bily Kostel nad Nisou, on the
Neisse river in the north of the country, was flooded for a second time in a week.