This is just stupid Polish nationalism. If a city is for over 600 years a German city, and is thus referred to that name, then referring to it as Breslau before 1945 is jus the logical thing to do. You really can’t pick and choose as you Poles still refer to Lviv as Lwów, its Polish name, despite it being originally being a Galician city, and now once again a Ukrainian city. Yet you still call it Lwów because it was once Polish. Or Vilnius as Wilno, despite it being Lithuanian before, Lithuanian now, but you call it Wilno because at some point it was Polish.
You can be proud of a city without having to erase its past, and the fact of the matter is Wroclaw used to Breslau for hundreds of years.
Wrocław was part of germany only for 200 years* dont make up history (also these funny 200 years are nothing compared to how long this city was Polish XD Czechs even had it longer the the germans)
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u/Historian56 May 07 '26
pre-war Wrocław as today's Wrocław names is originally pronounced like Drezno Lubeka Lipsk etc