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The youth organization of the Landsmannschaft, the Schlesische Jugend, was founded in 1948. Its aim is to preserve the heritage of Silesia with its culture and landscapes. The focus of the work of the Schlesische Jugend is cultural and political education. The Schlesische Jugend was accused of links
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which led in 2011 to its exclusion from the Landsmannschaft. A Divisional Court reversed the exclusion on 1 February 2012 as invalid, but the National Executive Board of the Landsmannschaft renewed the exclusion on 10 March 2012.
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declined to attend unless the slogan was modified, which it was, to "Silesia remains our future in a Europe of free nations". At the 2001 congress held in
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or after, and their descendants, as well as people who emigrated in more recent times, exercising their right to
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was booed when he said that the expulsions were the consequence of German aggression.
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Evangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia
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The presidents of the Federation since its founding have been:
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In 1985, the Landsmannschaft planned to hold a congress in
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Landsmannschaft Schlesien - Nieder- und Oberschlesien e.V.
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Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland
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in Heisterbacherrott, Königswinter, Rhein-Sieg District
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Silesian Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession
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There is also another Silesian Landsmannschaft, the
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Index

organization
Lower
Upper Silesia
Germany
Federation of Expellees
Königswinter
North Rhine-Westphalia


Flag of Silesia and Lower Silesia

Flag of Upper Silesia
eagle
expelled or evacuated
World War II
German citizenship
Aussiedler
German Law of Return
ethnic German
Stephan Rauhut
German Christian Democratic Union
Rudi Pawelka
Herbert Hupka
Stuttgart
Helmut Kohl
Nuremberg
Otto Schily
Landsmannschaft der Oberschlesier
Upper Silesians
Herbert Hupka

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