German-Polish population exchange at Versailles

Though not always a relaiable source, Wikipedia says something different:

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Another problem that Polish authorities were faced with was the disposition of the so-called "Germanized Poles" or "autochthons". Of close to three million residents of Masuria (Masurs), Pomerania (Kashubians) and Upper Silesia (Silesians) of Slavic descent, many did not identify with Polish nationality, were either bilingual or spoke German or Germanized dialects only.[87] Large numbers of these had registered with the German Deutsche Volksliste during the war. While those who had signed Volksliste category "I" were expelled, the Polish government aimed to retain as many "autochthons" as possible, as they were needed both for economic reasons and also for propaganda purposes, as their presence on former German soil was used to indicate an intrinsic "Polishness" character of the area and justify its incorporation into the Polish state as "recovered territories".[87] "Verification" and "national rehabilitation" processes were set up to reveal a "dormant Polishness" and to determine which were redeemable as Polish citizens, few were actually expelled.[87] "Autochthons" not only disliked the subjective and often arbitrary verification process, but they also faced discrimination even once verified. Polish settlers coveted autochthon property, and they resented and distrusted the verified autochthons. Many autochthons fled to occupied Germany in despair at their treatment, although the situation in Germany was little better. As one Silesian wrote, "In Poland, I'm a German. In Germany, a Pole. Perhaps they should create a state for us on the moon. There we might finally feel at home".[88]

The verification procedure varied in different territories and was changed several times. Initially, the applicants had to prove their past membership in a Polish minority organization of the German Reich, and in addition needed a warrant where three Polish locals testified their Polishness.[89] In April 1945, the Upper Silesian voivode declared the fulfillment of only one of these requirements to be sufficient.[89] In the areas like Lower Silesia and Pomerania, where the Polish authorities suspected only Germans, verification was handled much more strictly than in the former German-Polish borderlands.[9] Of the 1,104,134 "verified autochtones" in the census of 1950, close to 900,000 were natives of Upper Silesia and Masuria.[9]

Also current PM of poland is Kashubian.
 
Th Poles expelled Kashubians after World War II did they not, despite siad group being neither German nor pro-Nazi?

AFAIK, the Poles did not expell Kashubians, "only" some Mazurians, Slavic Silesians, and, ironically, all Sorbs from Eastern Lusatia between the Neisse and Bober rivers. The Kashubians were the most pro-Polish of those groups, with Mazurians and Sorbs being predominantly pro-German (and those Sorbs that weren't pro-German were pro-Czech in any case), and Slavic Silesians being somewhere in the middle.

Additionally, 1920 was not 1945, and Germany expelling anybody would have set a precedent regarding the quite numerous German minorities elsewhere back then that would have backfired on Germany tremendously.
 
AFAIK, the Poles did not expell Kashubians, "only" some Mazurians, Slavic Silesians, and, ironically, all Sorbs from Eastern Lusatia between the Neisse and Bober rivers. The Kashubians were the most pro-Polish of those groups, with Mazurians and Sorbs being predominantly pro-German (and those Sorbs that weren't pro-German were pro-Czech in any case), and Slavic Silesians being somewhere in the middle.

Additionally, 1920 was not 1945, and Germany expelling anybody would have set a precedent regarding the quite numerous German minorities elsewhere back then that would have backfired on Germany tremendously.

So my point stands; Why, if Poland is expelling Slavs for alleged Germanness, why would Germny not seek to push out its Slavs?
 
So my point stands; Why, if Poland is expelling Slavs for alleged Germanness, why would Germny not seek to push out its Slavs?

Because Sorbs are about as Polish as Frisians or Danes are. It would make about the same amount of sense for Germany to expell its Sorbs as to expell its Frisians or Danes. And I repeat, the Sorbs are far closer to the Czechs, who did not expulse anyone during the interwar, than to the Poles, and Germany expelling the Sorbs might lead to the Czechs doing something nasty to the Sudeten Germans, something Germany does not want at all.
 
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