sentences:  In the later years however many of them left to West Germany to flee the communist Eastern Bloc (see Emigration from Poland to Germany after World War II).Today Opole, along with the surrounding region, is known as a centre of the German minority in Poland that recruits mainly from the descendants of the positively verified autochthons.In the city itself however only 2.46% of the inhabitants declared German nationality according to the last national census of 2002.