The Treaty of Warsaw is a treaty between West Germany and the Peoples Republic of Poland. It was signed on December 7th, 1970 and ratified by the german Bundestag on May 17, 1972. The Peoples Republic of Poland or Polish Peoples Republic (Polish: Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa, PRL) was the official name of Poland from 1952 to 1989, during its period of rule by the Communist party, officially called the Polish United Workers Party (Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza, or PZPR). ... December 7 is the 341st day (342nd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... The Bundestag (Federal Diet) is the parliament of Germany. ... May 17 is the 137th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (138th in leap years). ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ...

In the treaty, both sides commit themselfes to nonviolence and accepted the existing border, which was a very sensitive topic at the time, because Poland was afraid, that one day a german government would reclaim some of the territory Germany lost after World War II. World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that engulfed much of the globe...

Chancelor Willy Brandt was heavily criticized by the conservative CDU/CSU opposition, which indeed were in favour of such a claim, they accused him of abandoning german interests. Willy Brandt (December 18, 1913 – October 8, 1992) was a German politician and Chancellor of Germany from 1969 to 1974. ... This article needs cleanup. ... The Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU – ) is a conservative Germany. ...

External links

• Wording of the treaty on the website of the german foreign office (german PDF-File)

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