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UK Prime Minister Lloyd GeorgeвЂ™s speech in the British Parliament, strongly disapproving of the insurrection, aroused the hopes of some Germans. The French troops generally favored the insurrection, while within some cases, British and Italian contingents actively cooperated with Germans. The Inter-Allied Commission, in which General Henri Le Rond was the most influential individual, waited rather long prior to taking any steps to end the violence.

These paramilitary units existed throughout Germany and usually acted independently from both the provisional official army and the leadership of the fledgling German Republic. A particular concern was to prevent the recurrence of violent acts against Polish civilians by members of the Freikorps, demobilized Imperial German army units that had refused to disband. It started on 2вЂ“, with the destruction of German rail bridges (see вЂњWawelberg GroupвЂќ) in order to slow down the movement of German reinforcements. Having learned from previous failures, the Third War was carefully planned and organized under the leadership of Wojciech Korfanty. The insurrection was to begin in early in May. In late April 1921, rumors spread that the British position would prevail, prompting the local Polish activists to organize an uprising. Polish insurgents during third Silesian uprising, May 1921. The French wanted to weaken Germany, and thus supported Polish claims on the territory the British and the Italians disagreed, in part because the German government declared that a loss of the Silesian industries would render Germany incapable of paying the demanded war reparations. The primary problem was the disposition of the вЂњIndustrial TriangleвЂќ east of the Oder river, whose triangle ends were marked by the cities of Beuthen (Bytom), Gleiwitz (Gliwice) and Kattowitz (Katowice), all three of which were mostly inhabited by ethnic Germans. The British and French governments could not reach a consensus on the interpretation of the plebiscite. It included the Battle of Annaberg and began in the aftermath of a plebiscite that yielded mixed results. The Third Silesian Uprising (Polish: Trzecie powstanie Е›lД…skie) was the last, largest and longest of the three wars. The rebellions have subsequently been commemorated in modern Poland as an example of Polish nationalism. Following the conflict, the area was divided between the two countries. Ethnic Polish separatists, seeking to have the area transferred to the newly founded Polish Republic, fought German police and paramilitary forces, as the former sought to keep the area part of the new German state founded after World War I.

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The Silesian Uprisings (German: AufstГ¤nde in Oberschlesien Polish: Powstania Е›lД…skie) were a series of three uprisings from August 1919 to July 1921 in Upper Silesia, which was part of the Weimar Republic at the time.

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