14 November 1990

On November 14, 1990, Poland and Germany concluded a treaty confirming the existing Polish-German border. The document was signed by Foreign Affairs Ministers Krzysztof Skubiszewski and Hans-Dietrich Genscher. The signing of the treaty was linked closely to the German reunification, whose terms were negotiated in the so-called “2+4” Talks that brought together the four former occupying powers, i.e. the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain and France, as well as the two German states: the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic. The Polish-German treaty also finally settled a fundamental dispute between the two countries over Germany’s failure to recognize Poland’s western border along the Odra and Nysa Łużycka rivers that the victorious powers had established in the Potsdam Conference on August 2, 1945.