Recovered territory
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Recovered Territory refers mainly to land ceded from Germany at the end of the Second World War. Large areas of Silesia and Prussia were claimed by Poland. However, the movement of peoples did not only occur in the former German states. The areas of Lithuania and Ukraine were altered at the end of the war. The Ukrainian town of L'viv was pre-1939 the Polish town of Lwów. Many of the Polish inhabitants of Lwów moved to the German Breslau, now the Polish city of Wrocław. In essence the post-1945 make-up of Wrocław University was the surviving faculty from universities in Lwów.
