Wow! I wanted to leave this thread, but this! Wow!
Okay, so there isn't a historical claim to Upper Silesia.
For centuries it belonged to Prussia, before this to Austria & before this to Bohemia. Which where all part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation. It even belonged to the fucking KINGDOM OF GERMANY in 1000.
But all of this is pretty much irrelevant, because this matterd jack shit to the Entente.
Which is why the Allies chose to hold referendums there and partition it,
Funny how they decided to ignore the will of people when its collided with their
"secruity" intrests. A recurring phenomenon & not only in Versailles, but all treaties ending WW1.
and both Germany and Poland gave their chunk a limited amount of autonomy.
Cant remember that. Care to share some informations?
Which proves my point about OTL Versailles being a fair treaty.
Versailles is probably the worst treaty of all times. Designed to be a Carthaginian peace by the victors they where to weak to enforce it. I spare me the hybris the Entente nations showed when dealing with national self determination.
It was a shitty treaty, driven by nationalism, revanchism & imperialism and haven't even had the decency to admit it.