Silesia - What Happened?

My questions began as a piece of Silesia pottery came into my collection which is backstamped with 'Germany', 'Silesia' a stylized P, and an NS. At the edge just inside the foot on the bottom is imprinted 'SS'.

As an avid collector, I am dying to know more about this piece and perhaps fix it in time and history

Yes, Silesia was initially an independent duchy (or duchies) until absorbed by Austria in the 16th century. In the 18th century, Frederick the Great of Prussia won Silesia from Austria in a series of wars. When the German Empire was created under the Prussian King Wilhelm I in 1871, Silesia was part of it and remained part of Germany until the end of World War II, when it was given to Poland to compensate the Poles for territory lost to the Soviet Union in the east.

After World War I, Upper Silesia was one of many disputed territories. Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia all claimed portions of it. It remained a thorn in the side of European peace for the entire interwar period.

But the word 'Silesia' itself isn't German. The Germans called the region Schlesien.

I'm not sure about the stylized 'P,' but 'NS' was an abbreviation used for 'National Socialist,' the first two words in the full name of the Nazi Party (the National Socialist German Workers' Party). The normal abbreviation used for the Nazi Party by the Germans was, however, NSDAP. Only the British and Americans occasionally used 'NS' as an abbreviation for Nazi.

If the 'NS' refers to Nazi, I again have doubts about whether your piece of pottery is German in origin.

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Yes. In fact due to effects of Allied bombing in the Ruhr, it was the largest concentration of German industry left by late 1944. Whilst planning the invasion of Germany Stalin reputedly tapped Silesia on the map and said to Koniev 'Gold'. By this he rather cryptically meant, don't trash Silesia fighting over the place as I want it captured intact, which Koniev managed to do by a cunning envelopment manouvre.

I have no idea what the markings mean on the pottery though.

Cheers