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- noun The process of
Polonizing .
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Examples
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In her view, for a substantial proportion of middle class children Polonization either began at home or, if started in school, found encouragement at home, especially from mothers.
Poland: Interwar. 2009
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Policies of enforced Germanization and Polonization took hold on either side of the borders of Upper Silesia.
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During World War II, the entire region was reincorporated in Germany, which nullified the achievements of Polonization.
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What I read said that many Silesians, Mazurians, and Kashubians held fiercely to their heritages, but many accepted Polonization because of stronger local than national ties and because conditions in Poland were better than in Germany at the time.
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Its program called for maintenance of the constitution of 1935, popular support for the army as the shield of national existence, anti-Communism, distribution of land to the peasants, Polonization of minorities, and so on.
1937, March 1 2001
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To the final Polonization of the Cistercian convents
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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The program of the school was arranged with a view to the Polonization of its pupils.
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) I. [Translator] Friedlaender 1900
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While the official world of St. Petersburg was obsessed with the idea of the Russification of Jewry, in Warsaw the tendency of Polonization, as applied to the Jews of the Western region, cropped up in the wake of the revolutionary Polish movement in the beginning of the sixties.
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) I. [Translator] Friedlaender 1900
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Polonization which had seized the Jewish upper classes.
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) I. [Translator] Friedlaender 1900
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Polonization of Jewish education, while in the far-off distance they could discern the promised land of equal citizenship.
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) I. [Translator] Friedlaender 1900
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