Oder-Neisse line
오데르-나이세 선
The post-Second World War border between Poland and Germany, tracing the Oder and Lusatian Neisse rivers. Set provisionally at the Potsdam Conference of 1945, which placed the former German eastern territories under Polish administration pending a peace settlement, the line was in effect decided by Joseph Stalin as compensation for Poland's loss of territory east of the Curzon Line. East Germany recognised it in 1950, while West Germany long withheld recognition, accepting it only with reservations in the Treaty of Warsaw of 1970 and finally at international law in the 1990 German-Polish Border Treaty.
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- Wikipedia (EN) core facts: border follows the Oder and Lusatian Neisse; set provisionally at Potsdam (2 August 1945) pending a peace settlement; Stalin the final arbiter; East Germany recognised via Treaty of Zgorzelec 1950; West Germany accepted with reservations in 1970 (Treaty of Warsaw), final recognition in 1990 German-Polish Border Treaty; compensation for territory east of the Curzon Line.
- opil.ouplaw.com Oxford Public International Law (Max Planck Encyclopedia) entry confirming the 14 November 1990 German-Polish Border Treaty as the instrument of final recognition under international law.
- Wikipedia (EN) final recognition of the Oder-Neisse border was a precondition of full German sovereignty and a term of the Unification Treaty.