 The German author Christian Raitz von Frentz writes that after the First World War ended, the Polish government tried to reverse the systematic Germanization of the past decades
Prejudices, stereotypes and conflicts dating back to German harsh rule and discrimination of Poles influenced Polish policies towards minorities in the new independent Polish state.The Polish authorities, supported by the public (e.g.the “explicitly anti-German” Związek Obrony Kresów Zachodnich), initiated a number of measures to further Polonization.