7. population gain recovered territories germans remaining in poland after the war in the recovered territories. this group included 1,130,000 bi-lingual polish-german persons who declared their allegiance to poland. also remaining in 1950 were 94,000 german nationals, 36,000 germans from pre-war danzig and 1,500 ethnic germans of other nations. most of this group emigrated to germany after 1956. the ethnic german population remaining in the 1990s was about 300,000.