Editing Curzon Line (section)

== Ethnicity west of the Curzon Line until 1939 ==
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According to Piotr Eberhardt, in 1939, the population of all territories between the Oder-Neisse Line and the Curzon Line—all territories which formed post-1945 Poland—totalled 32,337,800 inhabitants, of whom the largest groups were ethnic Poles (approximately 67%), ethnic Germans (approximately 25%), and Jews (2,254,300 or 7%), with 657,500 (2%) Ukrainians, 140,900 Belarusians and 47,000 people of all other ethnic groups also in the region.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Eberhardt|first=Piotr|date=2000|title=Przemieszczenia ludności na terytorium Polski spowodowane II wojną światową|url=http://rcin.org.pl/Content/6242/WA51_16148_r2000-nr15_Dokumentajca-Geogr.pdf|journal=Dokumentacja Geograficzna|language=pl, en|location=Warsaw|volume=15|pages=75–76|via=Repozytorium Cyfrowe Instytutów Naukowych}}</ref> Much of the Ukrainian population was forcibly resettled after World War II to Soviet Ukraine or scattered in the new Polish [[Recovered Territories]] of [[Silesia]], [[Pomerania]], [[Lubusz Land]], [[Warmia]] and [[Masuria]] in an ethnic cleansing by the Polish military in an operation called [[Operation Vistula]].