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Ethnicity of inhabitants should be verified

The current text appears to be biased. It states:

"In the 19th century the town was part of territory dominated by the Polish language, and the Osterode district was inhabited mostly by Poles (71% in 1825, 65% in 1867). The town was a significant Polish centre,[3] whose most famous representative was pastor Gustaw Gizewiusz.[3]"

This is highly misleading. The numbers 71% and 65% refer to inhabitants who spoke Masurian (in addition to German). Osterode was ethnically mostly German, as indicated by the referendum of 1920 when practially 100% of the the inhabitants voted for Germany.

In fact in 1890, Osterode had 9410 inhabitans, including 500 Poles. Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostróda#cite_note-3 Again, this shows that the claim that Osterode was "inhabited mostly by Poles" is wrong.

Also the text gives the impression that Gustaw Giszewiusz was a Pole. Instead, Hermann Martin Gustav Gisevius was a German pastor and philolog, who was interested in the Masurian language. Gustav Gisevius was hardly "the most famous representaives of the Poles".