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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R87570%2C_G%C3%B6rlitzer_Abkommen.jpg/450px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R87570%2C_G%C3%B6rlitzer_Abkommen.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R87570%2C_G%C3%B6rlitzer_Abkommen.jpg/600px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R87570%2C_G%C3%B6rlitzer_Abkommen.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="528" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="padding:0.35em 0.35em 0.25em;line-height:1.25em;"><a href="/wiki/Otto_Grotewohl" title="Otto Grotewohl">Otto Grotewohl</a> (l.) and <a href="/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Cyrankiewicz" title="Józef Cyrankiewicz">Józef Cyrankiewicz</a> walking to the Zgorzelec community centre to sign the treaty</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data">Boundary treaty</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Signed</th><td class="infobox-data">6 July 1950</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data location"><a href="/wiki/Zgorzelec" title="Zgorzelec">Zgorzelec</a>, <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Original<br />signatories</th><td class="infobox-data attendee plainlist"> <ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Poland_(1928%E2%80%931980).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Poland_%281928%E2%80%931980%29.svg/22px-Flag_of_Poland_%281928%E2%80%931980%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Poland_%281928%E2%80%931980%29.svg/33px-Flag_of_Poland_%281928%E2%80%931980%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Poland_%281928%E2%80%931980%29.svg/44px-Flag_of_Poland_%281928%E2%80%931980%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="800" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Cyrankiewicz" title="Józef Cyrankiewicz">Józef Cyrankiewicz</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Germany.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/22px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/33px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/44px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Otto_Grotewohl" title="Otto Grotewohl">Otto Grotewohl</a></li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parties</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist"> <ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Poland_(1928%E2%80%931980).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img 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class="mw-redirect" title="Polish-Lithuanian War">Polish-Lithuanian War</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles" title="Treaty of Versailles">Treaty of Versailles</a> (1919)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Saint-Germain-en-Laye_(1919)" title="Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919)">Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suwa%C5%82ki_Agreement" title="Suwałki Agreement">Suwałki Agreement</a> (1920)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Warsaw_(1920)" title="Treaty of Warsaw (1920)">Treaty of Warsaw</a> (1920) with <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_People%27s_Republic" title="Ukrainian People's Republic">Ukrainian People's Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1920_East_Prussian_plebiscite" title="1920 East Prussian plebiscite">1920 East Prussian plebiscite</a> (1920)</li> <li>Polish satellite states <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Central_Lithuania" title="Republic of Central Lithuania">Republic of Central Lithuania</a> (1920-1922)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_City_of_Danzig" title="Free City of Danzig">Free City of Danzig</a> under <a href="/wiki/League_of_Nations" title="League of Nations">League of Nations</a> protection (1921-1939)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peace_of_Riga" class="mw-redirect" title="Peace of Riga">Peace of Riga</a> (1921): eastern border of Poland accepted by <a href="/wiki/Russian_SFSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian SFSR">Russian SFSR</a> and its satellites (<a href="/wiki/Byelorussian_SSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Byelorussian SSR">Byelorussian SSR</a> which replaced <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Soviet_Republic_of_Lithuania_and_Belorussia" title="Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and Belorussia">SSR of Lithuania and Belorussia</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_SSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian SSR">Ukrainian SSR</a> which replaced <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_People%27s_Republic" title="Ukrainian People's Republic">Ukrainian People's Republic</a>)</li> <li>Incorporation of <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Central_Lithuania" title="Republic of Central Lithuania">Central Lithuania</a> (1922)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/German%E2%80%93Polish_Convention_regarding_Upper_Silesia" title="German–Polish Convention regarding Upper Silesia">German–Polish Convention regarding Upper Silesia</a> (1922)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish_National_District" title="Polish National District">Polish National Districts</a> of the Soviet Union (1925-1937) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marchlewszczyzna" title="Marchlewszczyzna">Marchlewszczyzna</a> (1925-1931)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dzier%C5%BCy%C5%84szczyzna" class="mw-redirect" title="Dzierżyńszczyzna">Dzierżyńszczyzna</a> (1932-1937)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Munich_Agreement" title="Munich Agreement">Munich Agreement</a> and Polish annexation of <a href="/wiki/Trans-Olza" title="Trans-Olza">Trans-Olza</a> (1938)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Vienna_Award" title="First Vienna Award">First Vienna Award</a> and Polish annexation of parts of <a href="/wiki/Spi%C5%A1" title="Spiš">Spiš</a> and <a href="/wiki/Orava_(region)" title="Orava (region)">Orava</a> (1938)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact" title="Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact">Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact</a> (1939) <ul><li>Secret <a href="/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Boundary_and_Friendship_Treaty" title="German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty">German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty</a></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist" style="text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Administrative_division_of_Polish_territories_during_World_War_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Administrative division of Polish territories during World War II">Wartime administrative division</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish_areas_annexed_by_Nazi_Germany" title="Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany">Territories of Poland and Danzig annexed by Nazi Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_Government" title="General Government">General Government</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Territories_of_Poland_annexed_by_the_Soviet_Union" title="Territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union">Polish areas annexed by USSR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish_government-in-exile" title="Polish government-in-exile">Polish government-in-exile</a> and <a href="/wiki/Polish_Underground_State" title="Polish Underground State">Polish Underground State</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Border_and_Commercial_Agreement" title="German–Soviet Border and Commercial Agreement">German–Soviet Border and Commercial Agreement</a> (1941)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bialystok_District" title="Bialystok District">Bialystok District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sikorski%E2%80%93Mayski_agreement" title="Sikorski–Mayski agreement">Sikorski–Mayski agreement</a> (1941)</li> <li>Transient Polish-controlled areas (1944) <ul><li>Turgiele Republic</li> <li>Iwonicz Republic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Pi%C5%84cz%C3%B3w_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Pińczów Republic">Second Pińczów Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Uprising" title="Warsaw Uprising">Warsaw Uprising</a></li></ul></li> <li>Allied conferences <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tehran_Conference" title="Tehran Conference">Tehran Conference</a> (1943)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moscow_Conference_(1943)" title="Moscow Conference (1943)">Moscow Conference</a> (1943)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yalta_Conference" title="Yalta Conference">Yalta Conference</a> (1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Potsdam_Conference" title="Potsdam Conference">Potsdam Conference</a> (1945)</li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Post World War II</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist" style="text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Potsdam_Agreement" title="Potsdam Agreement">Potsdam Agreement</a> (1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_border_agreement_of_August_1945" title="Polish–Soviet border agreement of August 1945">Polish–Soviet border agreement</a> (1945)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Treaty of Zgorzelec</a> (1950)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1951_Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_territorial_exchange" title="1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange">Polish-Soviet Border Adjustment Treaty</a> (1951)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Czechoslovak_border_conflicts#Aftermath" title="Polish–Czechoslovak border conflicts">Polish-Czechoslovak Border Treaty</a> (1958)</li> <li>Polish-East German Baltic Continental Shelf Delimitation Treaty (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Warsaw_(1970)" title="Treaty of Warsaw (1970)">Treaty of Warsaw (1970)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Czechoslovak_border_conflicts#Aftermath" title="Polish–Czechoslovak border conflicts">Polish-Czechoslovak Border Adjustment</a> (1976)</li> <li>Polish-East German Maritime Boundary in Pomeranian Bay Delimitation Treaty (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/German%E2%80%93Polish_Border_Treaty_(1990)" class="mw-redirect" title="German–Polish Border Treaty (1990)">German-Polish Border Treaty</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Final_Settlement_with_Respect_to_Germany" title="Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany">Two Plus Four Treaty</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Good_Neighbourship" title="Treaty of Good Neighbourship">Treaty of Good Neighbourship</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poland%E2%80%93Slovakia_border#2005_adjustment" title="Poland–Slovakia border">Poland–Slovakia Border Adjustment</a> (2005)</li> <li>Polish-Danish Maritime Boundary Delimitation Agreement (2018)</li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Areas</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist" style="text-align:left;"> <ul><li>Remnants of Polish statehood during partitions: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Congress_Poland" title="Congress Poland">Congress Poland</a>/<a href="/wiki/Vistula_Land" title="Vistula Land">Vistula Land</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Galicia_and_Lodomeria#Galician_autonomy" title="Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria">Galician autonomy</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kresy" title="Kresy">Kresy Wschodnie</a> ("Eastern Borderlands") <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Western_Krai" title="Western Krai">Taken Lands</a> (remainder of Russian partition of Poland) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wile%C5%84szczyzna" class="mw-redirect" title="Wileńszczyzna">Wileńszczyzna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grodzie%C5%84szczyzna" class="mw-redirect" title="Grodzieńszczyzna">Grodzieńszczyzna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lw%C3%B3w_Land" title="Lwów Land">Lwów Land</a></li></ul></li> <li>Areas of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Galicia_and_Lodomeria" title="Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria">Galicia and Lodomeria</a> east of river <a href="/wiki/San_(river)" title="San (river)">San</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kresy_Zachodnie" class="mw-redirect" title="Kresy Zachodnie">Kresy Zachodnie</a> ("Western Borderlands") <ul><li>1815-1918 used as synonymous with entire Prussian partition of Poland</li> <li>1918-1945 used in altered meaning <ul><li>regions unsuccessfully claimed from Germany by interwar Poland, in particular <a href="/wiki/Upper_Silesia" title="Upper Silesia">Upper Silesia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Warmia" title="Warmia">Warmia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Masuria" title="Masuria">Masuria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Powi%C5%9Ble_(region)" title="Powiśle (region)">Powiśle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Posen-West_Prussia" class="mw-redirect" title="Posen-West Prussia">Posen-West Prussia</a>, sometimes also <a href="/wiki/Starostwo_of_Draheim" title="Starostwo of Draheim">Starostwo of Draheim</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lauenburg_and_B%C3%BCtow_Land" title="Lauenburg and Bütow Land">Lauenburg and Bütow Land</a> and easternmost <a href="/wiki/Hither_Pomerania" class="mw-redirect" title="Hither Pomerania">Hither Pomerania</a> (<a href="/wiki/Lands_of_Schlawe_and_Stolp" title="Lands of Schlawe and Stolp">Lands of Schlawe and Stolp</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trans-Olza" title="Trans-Olza">Zaolzie</a></li></ul></li> <li>After 1945, the <a href="/wiki/Former_eastern_territories_of_Germany" title="Former eastern territories of Germany">former eastern territories of Germany</a> were called <a href="/wiki/Recovered_Territories" title="Recovered Territories">Recovered Territories</a>, while the term <i>Kresy Zachodnie</i> fell into disuse, though it was sometimes invoked to denote Polish claims to some East German territories such as <a href="/wiki/Western_Pomerania" title="Western Pomerania">Wolgast Pomerania</a>, <a href="/wiki/Upper_Lusatia" title="Upper Lusatia">Milsko</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mi%C5%9Bnia" class="mw-redirect" title="Miśnia">Miśnia</a> or <a href="/wiki/Lausitz" class="mw-redirect" title="Lausitz">Lausitz</a>, raised typically only until early 1970s as counterclaims to retaliate for West German calls for revision of <a href="/wiki/Oder%E2%80%93Neisse_line" title="Oder–Neisse line">Oder–Neisse line</a>.</li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Demarcation lines</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist" style="text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Poland_uprising_(1918%E2%80%931919)#Between_ceasefire_and_reunification" title="Greater Poland uprising (1918–1919)">Greater Poland military demarcation line</a> (1919-1920)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trans-Olza#Decision_time_(1918–1920)" title="Trans-Olza">Cieszyn Silesia demarcation line</a> (1918-1920)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_War#Demarcation_lines" title="Polish–Lithuanian War">Polish–Lithuanian demarcation line</a> (1919-1920)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Curzon_Line" title="Curzon Line">Curzon Line</a> (1920)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silesian_Uprisings#Aftermath" title="Silesian Uprisings">Upper Silesia demarcation line</a> (1921-1922)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_War#Aftermath" title="Polish–Lithuanian War">Polish–Lithuanian demarcation line</a> (1923-1938)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oder%E2%80%93Neisse_line" title="Oder–Neisse line">Oder–Neisse line</a> (1945–1951)</li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Adjacent countries</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist" style="text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_Germany" title="Territorial evolution of Germany">Territorial evolution of Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Territorial_changes_of_the_Baltic_states" title="Territorial changes of the Baltic states">Territorial changes of the Baltic states</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_Russia" title="Territorial evolution of Russia">Territorial evolution of Russia</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar 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title="East Germany">East Germany</a> (GDR) was signed on 6 July 1950 in <a href="/wiki/Zgorzelec" title="Zgorzelec">Zgorzelec</a>, Poland. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Signing">Signing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Treaty_of_Zgorzelec&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Signing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The agreement was signed by <a href="/wiki/Otto_Grotewohl" title="Otto Grotewohl">Otto Grotewohl</a>, prime minister of the provisional government of the GDR (East Germany) and Polish premier <a href="/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Cyrankiewicz" title="Józef Cyrankiewicz">Józef Cyrankiewicz</a>. It recognized the <a href="/wiki/Oder-Neisse_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Oder-Neisse line">Oder-Neisse line</a> implemented by the 1945 <a href="/wiki/Potsdam_Agreement" title="Potsdam Agreement">Potsdam Agreement</a> as the border between the two states.<sup id="cite_ref-EEJ_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EEJ-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The terms referred to the "defined and existing border" from the <a href="/wiki/Baltic_Sea" title="Baltic Sea">Baltic Sea</a> west of <a href="/wiki/%C5%9Awinouj%C5%9Bcie" title="Świnoujście">Świnoujście</a> - however without mentioning <a href="/wiki/Szczecin" title="Szczecin">Szczecin</a> - along the <a href="/wiki/Oder" title="Oder">Oder</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lusatian_Neisse" title="Lusatian Neisse">Lusatian Neisse</a> rivers to the <a href="/wiki/Czechoslovakia" title="Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovak</a> border. Thereby the East German government also accepted the division of <a href="/wiki/Kostrzyn_nad_Odr%C4%85" title="Kostrzyn nad Odrą">Kostrzyn nad Odrą</a>/<a href="/wiki/K%C3%BCstrin-Kietz" title="Küstrin-Kietz">Küstrin-Kietz</a>, <a href="/wiki/S%C5%82ubice" title="Słubice">Słubice</a>/<a href="/wiki/Frankfurt_(Oder)" title="Frankfurt (Oder)">Frankfurt (Oder)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gubin,_Poland" title="Gubin, Poland">Gubin</a>/<a href="/wiki/Guben" title="Guben">Guben</a> and <a href="/wiki/Zgorzelec" title="Zgorzelec">Zgorzelec</a>/<a href="/wiki/G%C3%B6rlitz" title="Görlitz">Görlitz</a>. This border drawing gave Poland a quarter of the pre-war territory of Germany according to the borders of 1937,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> whose German-speaking population either fled in the final stages of the war or <a href="/wiki/Flight_and_expulsion_of_Germans_from_Poland_during_and_after_World_War_II" title="Flight and expulsion of Germans from Poland during and after World War II">had been expelled</a> in the wake of the German defeat in accordance with the <a href="/wiki/Potsdam_Agreement" title="Potsdam Agreement">Potsdam Agreement</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="International_reaction_and_impact">International reaction and impact</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Treaty_of_Zgorzelec&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: International reaction and impact"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The treaty was worded as a declaration and was, initially, not recognised as a legitimate international treaty by <a href="/wiki/West_Germany" title="West Germany">West Germany</a> insisting on its <a href="/wiki/Exclusive_mandate" title="Exclusive mandate">exclusive mandate</a> and the members states of <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a>. Four years later when the Soviet Union granted East Germany independence,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the Soviet Union reserved rights over East Germany (similar to the rights reserved by the <a href="/wiki/Western_Bloc" title="Western Bloc">Western Allies</a> over West Germany under the <a href="/wiki/Bonn%E2%80%93Paris_conventions" title="Bonn–Paris conventions">Bonn–Paris conventions</a>) pending a final peace treaty with Germany - the 1990 <a href="/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Final_Settlement_with_Respect_to_Germany" title="Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany">Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany</a>. So although the treaty was binding on Poland and East Germany, for several decades it was not seen by many western members of the international community as such.<sup id="cite_ref-EEJ_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EEJ-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The West German government continued to maintain that the status of the territories east of the Oder-Neisse line were "under Polish and Soviet administration" until in 1970 Chancellor <a href="/wiki/Willy_Brandt" title="Willy Brandt">Willy Brandt</a> signed the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Warsaw_(1970)" title="Treaty of Warsaw (1970)">Treaty of Warsaw</a>, giving <i>de facto</i> acknowledgement of the border and confirming West Germany's acceptance of the Treaty of Zgorzelec as an international agreement binding on the states that were party to it. The validity of the Treaty of Zgorzelec was explicitly confirmed in a judgement of the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Constitutional_Court" title="Federal Constitutional Court">Federal Constitutional Court</a> of 1973 on the <a href="/wiki/Basic_Treaty,_1972" title="Basic Treaty, 1972">Basic Treaty between East and West Germany</a>. Reunited Germany formally accepted the Oder-Neisse boundary in the <a href="/wiki/German%E2%80%93Polish_Border_Treaty_(1990)" class="mw-redirect" title="German–Polish Border Treaty (1990)">German–Polish Border Treaty (1990)</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Location_of_signing">Location of signing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Treaty_of_Zgorzelec&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Location of signing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The community centre in which the treaty was signed is one of <a href="/wiki/Zgorzelec" title="Zgorzelec">Zgorzelec</a>'s main sights and is found in a park beside the road bridge border crossing. Built in typical <a href="/wiki/Wilhelmine_style" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilhelmine style">Wilhelmine style</a>, it was originally opened as the Upper Lusatian Memorial Hall (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Oberlausitzer_Gedenkhalle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Oberlausitzer Gedenkhalle (page does not exist)">Oberlausitzer Gedenkhalle</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberlausitzer_Gedenkhalle" class="extiw" title="de:Oberlausitzer Gedenkhalle">de</a>]</span>), and has been known as the Municipal House of Culture in Zgorzelec (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Miejski_Dom_Kultury_w_Zgorzelcu&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Miejski Dom Kultury w Zgorzelcu (page does not exist)">Miejski Dom Kultury w Zgorzelcu</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miejski_Dom_Kultury_w_Zgorzelcu" class="extiw" title="pl:Miejski Dom Kultury w Zgorzelcu">pl</a>]</span>) since 1975 . </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Commemoration">Commemoration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Treaty_of_Zgorzelec&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Commemoration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:BM_OderNeisse.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="1951 East German stamp commemorative of the Treaty of Zgorzelec featuring the presidents Wilhelm Pieck (GDR) and Bolesław Bierut (Poland)"><img alt="1951 East German stamp commemorative of the Treaty of Zgorzelec featuring the presidents Wilhelm Pieck (GDR) and Bolesław Bierut (Poland)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/BM_OderNeisse.jpg/120px-BM_OderNeisse.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="96" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/BM_OderNeisse.jpg/180px-BM_OderNeisse.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/BM_OderNeisse.jpg/240px-BM_OderNeisse.jpg 2x" data-file-width="403" data-file-height="323" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">1951 East German stamp commemorative of the Treaty of Zgorzelec featuring the presidents <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Pieck" title="Wilhelm Pieck">Wilhelm Pieck</a> (GDR) and <a href="/wiki/Boles%C5%82aw_Bierut" title="Bolesław Bierut">Bolesław Bierut</a> (Poland)</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References_and_notes">References and notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Treaty_of_Zgorzelec&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 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