resettled primarily with Poles from Central Poland, but also with Poles from former eastern Poland, displaced Poles returning from forced labour in Nazi Germany, Ukrainians displaced by Operation Vistula, and Jews. since 1945: population in Vorpommern nearly doubles due to influx of expellees 1945/46: Land reform in German Pomerania (Bodenreform) 1950: Koszalin Voivodeship split off Szczecin Voivodeship 1946–1952: Western Pomerania (Vorpommern) without the Stettin/Szczecin area and Wollin/Wolin was fused with Mecklenburg to form the East German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, later Mecklenburg since 1948: Poland adopts Soviet style economy since 1949: East Germany adopts Soviet style economy since 1950: Western Pomeranian peasants forced to join socialist LPG units 1952: German Pomerania partitioned between newly created administrative units ("Bezirk") Rostock, Neubrandenburg, and Frankfurt. 1970: Polish 1970 protests 1975: administrative reform of the Szczecin Voivodeship 1980: Solidarność movement emerges in Gdańsk and Szczecin, Communist rule in Poland starts to collapse 1986: new port built in Sassnitz-Neu Mukran for the railway ferry between East Germany and the Soviet Union 1989: Die Wende movement results in a collapse of Communist rule in East Germany 1990: Western Pomerania becomes part of the newly re-established state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern prior to German reunification 1990: systematical decline of shipbuilding in Polish Pomerania 1995: Pomerania euroregion established 1999: Koszalin Voivodeship and Szczecin Voivodeship with some parts of neighboring voivodeships Słupsk Voivodeship, Piła Voivodeship and Gorzów Voivodeship merged into West Pomeranian Voivodeship 2007: the whole Pomerania in Schengen Area 2011: new administrative division of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern See also History of Denmark History of Germany History of Poland History of Sweden Sources References Bibliography Further reading English: Boehlke, LeRoy, Pomerania - Its People and Its History, Pommerscher Verein Freistadt, Germantown, WI, U.S.A., 1983. German and Polish: Jan Maria Piskorski et al. (Werner Buchholz, Jörg Hackmann, Alina Hutnikiewicz, Norbert Kersken, Hans-Werner Rautenberg, Wlodzimierz Stepinski, Zygmunt Szultka, Bogdan Wachowiak, Edward Wlodarczyk), Pommern im Wandel der Zeiten, Zamek Ksiazat Pomorskich, 1999, . This book is a co-edition of several German and Polish experts on Pomeranian history and covers the history of Pomerania, except for Pomerelia, from the earliest appearance of humans in the area until the end of the second millennium. It is also available in a Polish version (Pomorze poprzez wieki). Polish: Gerard Labuda (ed.), Historia Pomorza, vol. I (to 1466), parts 1–2, Poznań 1969 Gerard Labuda (ed.), Historia Pomorza, vol. II (1466–1815), parts 1–2, Poznań 1976 Gerard Labuda (ed.), Historia Pomorza, vol. III (1815–1850),