Speech #850047565

In the middle of the 13th century Tatar hordes under Batu invaded the kingdom of Poland and left towns like Sandomierz and Cracow in ashes. Batu went as far as Hungary where his glory vanished as suddenly as it had appeared. Once again Poland had to rebuild and she did so with the help of foreign settlersGermans. Moravianswho came as immigrants and received equal rights with the Poles. Among the foreign settlers came the men of the Teutonic order. who had just been expelled from Hungary. Then came the wars fought against the order who had established itself in Poland at the beginning of the 13th century and had come there being wholeheartedly accepted by the Poles who needed manpower against the Prussian invaders.