Breslau
Americannoun
noun
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Breslau, where Germans outnumbered Poles 10 to 1 before 1945, became Polish Wrocław.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
The five-year-old had fled her home in Breslau, Germany, now Wroclaw in Poland, with her 10-year-old sister Ruth.
From BBC • Jul. 2, 2023
In the 1930s, it took around two hours and 45 minutes to reach Breslau from Berlin.
From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2022
Breslau noted that since then, “the heat has definitely died down,” and allowed the military to resume its esports initiatives and sponsorship of external gaming leagues, causing skeptics great concern for the future.
From Washington Post • Jun. 10, 2022
My mother’s family came from Breslau, and she had grown up speaking German, so she insisted I do too, hiring a strict governess named Frau Schmidt to look after me.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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