WI:Silesia given to Czechoslovakia instead of Poland

The problem with that one is that Silesia wasn't detached from Germany just to punish her. It was given to Poland along with other territories because the soviets needed to give something to the Poles in exchange for the lands east of the Curzon line who where annexed to Russia. I don't see why the rationele would be to send it to the Czechs.
 
The problem with that one is that Silesia wasn't detached from Germany just to punish her. It was given to Poland along with other territories because the soviets needed to give something to the Poles in exchange for the lands east of the Curzon line who where annexed to Russia. I don't see why the rationele would be to send it to the Czechs.
Silesia or it's parts were parts of Czech crown till lost to Prussians I believe. That could be rationale behind it.
 
This would only happen if Stalin wanted to erase Poland from the map, and he didn't want to do this, plus World War II was supposedly fought to defend Polish independence.

Something like this would only happen if Poland was allied with the Nazis from the start and never switched sides (note that Italy didn't do that badly in the peace settlement), and I have no idea how you get this and it would mean a really different World War II.
 
Two hundreds years ago and then some. Color me unconvinced on this one.
Old claim is still better then no claim all together. But not real reason for Czechoslovakia or others to go this way. Asfar as Czechoslovakia was concerned after WWII smallteritories with Czech or Sorbian minorities were satisfying. Even then Czechoslovakia and Poland almost got to shooting in summer 1945. Tank units were massing on both sides of border and Soviets were playing peacekeepers.
 
Old claim is still better then no claim all together. But not real reason for Czechoslovakia or others to go this way. Asfar as Czechoslovakia was concerned after WWII smallteritories with Czech or Sorbian minorities were satisfying. Even then Czechoslovakia and Poland almost got to shooting in summer 1945. Tank units were massing on both sides of border and Soviets were playing peacekeepers.

OTOH Poland had ethnic claim at least to Upper Silesia, with very significant Polish minority living there.
 
OTOH Poland had ethnic claim at least to Upper Silesia, with very significant Polish minority living there.
I am not saying it didn't had ethnic claim. That's why I said it would be more trouble for Czexhoslovakia then was worth. Czech and Slovaks had enough fun by themselves.
 
In 1945 Czechoslovakia was not yet certain to be Communist. (It was only with the 1946 elections--which were held *after* the withdrawal of Soviet troops--that it was even clear the Communists would be the largest single party and would get the Prime Miinistership and other key positions.) So why would Stalin want to give it to Czechoslovakia, whose ethnic claim to most of it was even weaker than Poland's?
 
The Czechs and Slovaks as ethnic groups drastically increased their land by deporting Germans and Magyars. They had enough land to settle. Poland? They were losing quite a bit. Heck, look at maps about the genetics of Europe and it shows that the formerly German areas of Poland look different from either Germany or the rest of Poland. Possibly because a lot of people from Eastern Poland were moved to Pomerania and Silesia, so you got Poles cleared out for the former Soviet Union going there, as well as Ukranians who Warsaw doesn't want at the border lest they be used to tempt nationalists to call for new border arrangements.
 
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