In this file may be found petitions and appeals submitted to the Minorities Section of the League of Nations by the Deutscher Volksbund [German People's League] on behalf of the German minority in Polish Upper Silesia, as well as the Polish government's observations on the said documents.

This file contains papers from the League of Nations and the Permanent Court of International Justice regarding a petition submitted by Prince Hans of Pless, on the matter of the administration of his father's holdings in the Silesian Voivodeship, as well as the petition itself, supplementary petitions, and the response of the Polish government to the said petitions.