In 1990, a historic treaty finally settled the long-disputed border between Germany and Poland
Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany and Poland signed a landmark treaty in 1990 that finally resolved decades of territorial uncertainty by permanently establishing the Oder-Neisse line as their shared border.
On November 14, 1990, the German-Polish Border Treaty officially ended years of tension by confirming the Oder-Neisse line as the permanent frontier between the two nations. While the border was initially drawn by the Allied powers at the end of World War II, its legitimacy remained a sensitive and disputed issue throughout the Cold War era.
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