Bet you didn’t know….

May 26th, 2006 | By: Harvey Morrell | 6 Comments »

that Germany’s potential striker duo are both Polish born. Can you name them? The answer is in this story.



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Username By frank | May 26th, 2006 at 11:19 am
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Polish immigrants (or in poland born germans) have a long history in germany and also in german football.

Even before WWII there where a lot of german players with a polish heritage that immigrate mostly to the Ruhrgebiet and played at teams like Schalke or Dortmund.

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Username By Harvey | May 26th, 2006 at 11:36 am
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Thanks for that info, Frank! Hob’ i’ nett g’wust.

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Username By frank | May 27th, 2006 at 7:07 am
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It is a interesting topic that shows the long and sometimes very complicated history between the two countries.

Klose for example is and was always a german ( as far as i know). He belonged to the german minortiy that still lives in poland in the former german regions although most germans were forced to leave these regions after WWII.

But there is also a long history of polish immigrants that came to germany especially in the late 19th century but also during the 20th century. many of these polish imigrants came from the eastern prussian regions where also a lot of poles live to the west to work in the mines and factories of the Ruhrgebiet. Poles are one of the biggest groups of immigrants in germany. Someone must make adifference between a polish immigrant and a guy like Klose because following german law Klose has always been a german although he was born in Poland because you are german by heritage and not by your birth place.

But these two guys are not the only present top german players born in poland or with a polish heritage.

Tim Borowski national team middfield

Piotr Trochowski HSV german national team U21

Michael Delura U21 national team

Markus Brzenska Dortmund U21 national team

Lukas Sinkiewicz Köln several starts in the german national team plays at the moment in the U21 ntional team

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Username By Harvey | May 28th, 2006 at 3:02 pm
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Frank, do you know how many Sudetens are at such a high level? (Meine Mutter is’ Sudetendeutscherin)

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Username By frank | May 29th, 2006 at 9:26 am
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I searched but i could not find anything about that topic.

The reason might be that nearly all Sudetendeutsche had to leave the czech republic because of the Benes-Dekrete after WWII and more than 200000 died turing that time.
I found that only 69000 germans came back to germany from the czech republic from the years 51 to 91 and less than 150000 could stay in the Czech republic after the war.

If a player has this sudetendeutsche heritage today it would be no topic because it is very likely that he comes from a german state like bavaria and not from the czech republic.

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Username By cool site | May 31st, 2006 at 8:22 pm
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