Maciej Fic
focuses on the demographic relations in the Upper Silesia in the years 1945 -1950, as
exemplified by the situation in the three cities: Gliwice, Bytom, and Zabrze. He analyses
the influence of natural and enforced migration on the population of these cities. Mass
migration, connected with the changes in the political borders after the World War II
and great masses of people being forced to move from the east to the west, had in the
Upper Silesia numerous social and political consequences which the author addresses in
his article
