What is Treaty of Warsaw (1970)?
The '''Treaty of Warsaw''' ({{lang-de|Warschauer Vertrag}}) is a treaty between [[West Germany]] and the [[People's Republic of Poland]]. It was signed on December 7, 1970 and ratified by the German [[Bundestag]] on May 17, 1972. In the treaty, both sides committed themselves to nonviolence and accepted the existing border - the [[Oder-Neisse line]]. This was a very sensitive topic at the time as Poland was concerned that one day a German government would lay claim to some of the territory Germany lost after [[World War II]]. Poland took over this territory to replace eastern Poland, which the [[Soviet Union]] had conquered in 1939. A lot of that land was east of the [[Curzon Line]], and Poland kept it after the [[Polish-Soviet War]] (1919-1921). Chancellor [[Willy Brandt]] was heavily criticized by the conservative [[Christian Democratic Union of Germany|CDU]]/[[Christian Social Union|CSU]] opposition, which indeed were in favour of such a claim, accusing him of abandoning German interests. The Oder-Neisse line was reaffirmed by a reunited Germany in the [[German-Polish Border Treaty]], signed on 14 November 1990. In the [[Federal Republic of Germany|FRG]] at the time this treaty was signed it was not seen as the last word on the border,<ref name=EEJ>Johnson, Edward Elwyn. [http://www.eej-esq.com/PDFs/German_Reunification.pdf International law aspects of the German reunification alternative answers to the German question] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009043103/http://www.eej-esq.com/PDFs/German_Reunification.pdf |date=2007-10-09 }}. Page 18 and footnote 35 that cites Ludwig Gelberg, ''The Warsaw Treaty of 1970 and the Western Boundary of Poland'', at 125-127; Jochen Abr. Frowein, ''The Reunification of Germany'', 86 Am. J. Int'l L. 152, 156 (1992), at 156.</ref> because article IV stated that previous treaties like the Potsdam Agreement were not superseded by this latest agreement, so the provisions of this treaty could be changed by a final [[peace treaty]] between Germany and the [[Alli