Editing Lusatia (section)

=== Since 1945 ===
[[File:Flag of Sorbs.svg|thumb|right|upright=0.8|The flag of the Lusatian National movement]]
[[File:Krainy-historyczne-Polski.png|thumb|upright=1.25|Lusatia (Łużyce) and other historical lands of Poland against the background of modern administrative borders (names in Polish)]]

After World War II according to the [[Potsdam Agreement]], Lusatia was divided between [[Allied-occupied Germany]] ([[Soviet occupation zone]]) and the [[People's Republic of Poland|Republic of Poland]] along the [[Oder–Neisse line]]. Poland's communist government [[Flight and expulsion of Germans from Poland during and after World War II|expelled]] all remaining Germans and Sorbs from the area east of the Neisse river in 1945 and 1946 in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement. The Lusatian National Committee in Prague claimed the right to self-government and separation from Germany and the creation of a Lusatian Free State or attachment to [[Czechoslovakia]]. The majority of the Sorbian intelligentsia was organized in the [[Domowina]], though, and did not wish to split from Germany. Claims asserted by the Lusatian National movement were postulates of joining Lusatia to Poland or Czechoslovakia. Between 1945 and 1947 they produced about ten memorials<ref>[http://www.prolusatia.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=159:dziaalno-wojciecha-wojcecha-kocki-w-serbouyckim-ruchu-narodowym-w-latach-1945-1950&catid=2:wszelkie-artykuy&Itemid=14 on site Prolusatia foundation "Działalność Wojciecha (Wojcecha) Kócki w serbołużyckim ruchu narodowym w latach 1945 – 1950" ]</ref> to the United States, Soviet Union, Great Britain, France, Poland, and Czechoslovakia; however, this did not bring any results. On 30 April 1946, the Lusatian National Committee also submitted a petition to the Polish Government, signed by Paweł Cyż – the minister and an official Sorbian delegate in Poland. There was also a project to proclaim a Lusatian Free State, whose Prime Minister was intended to be the Polish archaeologist of Lusatian origin, [[Wojciech Kóčka]].

In 1945, the northeastern part of Upper Lusatia west of the Neisse rejoined [[Saxony]] and in 1952, when the state was divided into three administrative areas (''Bezirke''), the Upper Lusatian region became part of the [[Dresden (Bezirk)|Dresden]] administrative region. After the East German [[Revolutions of 1989|Revolution of 1989]], the state of Saxony was reestablished in 1990. Lower Lusatia remained with [[Brandenburg]], from 1952 until 1990 in the ''Bezirk'' of [[Cottbus (Bezirk)|Cottbus]].

In 1950, the Sorbs obtained language and [[cultural autonomy]] within the then–East German state of Saxony. Lusatian schools and magazines were launched and the Domowina association was revived, although under increasing political control of the ruling Communist [[Socialist Unity Party of Germany]] (SED). At the same time, the large German-speaking majority of the Upper Lusatian population kept up a considerable degree of local, 'Upper Lusatian' patriotism of its own. An attempt to establish a Lusatian [[States of Germany|''Land'']] within the Federal Republic of Germany failed after [[German reunification]] in 1990. The constitutions of [[Saxony]] and Brandenburg guarantee cultural rights, but not autonomy, to the Sorbs.