Did they even want to? Also the Poles got the heavily German dominated areas of Silesia, which originally weren't on the table, so it was too much for them to get.After WW2 the Polish border was pushed far west and the mostly German-speaking population in the area was repclaced by Poles. But not very far from the new Polish-German border, there is a West Slavic groups called the Sorbs. Why didn´t the Sorbian-dominated area become part of Poland?
Did they even want to? Also the Poles got the heavily German dominated areas of Silesia, which originally weren't on the table, so it was too much for them to get.
Plus they got part of the Sorbs anyway:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sorben.jpeg
And the decision to give Poland territory wasn't based on ethnicity, as there were 12 million Germans in the areas they got, but rather on geographics and resources.
Given the mass ethnic cleansing of Germans already and lack of ethnicity being a factor in borders, they just didn't care. They wanted nice, tidy geographical borders, not ethnic ones. Plus the Sorbs were pretty Germanized as it was.It was very close to the border and it wouldn´t really add so much territory. It would seem natural to include it when they pushed the border so far west given its cultural closeness to Poland.
it's not a fully geographical border - szczecin and a large part of the surrounding land is on the "wrong" side of the oder/neise line, there's no reason why there couldnt have been another correction of the border further south.
they probably just forgot the sorbs exist...
I suspect that's it. Heck, if the Nazis forgot them....
I'm sure as did everyone else.The Nazis considered them as Germanized Slavs IIRC...
The Nazis considered them as Germanized Slavs IIRC...