POLISH CORRIDOR

strip of German territory awarded to newly independent Poland by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. The strip, 20 to 70 mi (32–112 km) wide, gave Poland access to the Baltic Sea. It contained the lower course of the Vistula, except the area constituting the Free City of Danzig (see Gdańsk) and the towns of Toruń, Grudziąz, and Bydogoszcz. Gdynia was developed as Poland's chief port and came to rival the port of Danzig. Free German transit was permitted across the corridor, which separated East Prussia from the rest of Germany. Although the territory had once formed part of Polish Pomerania, a large minority of the population was German-speaking. The arrangement caused chronic friction between Poland and Germany. In Mar., 1939, Germany demanded the cession of Danzig and the creation of an extraterritorial German corridor across the Polish Corridor. Poland rejected these demands and obtained a French and British guarantee against aggression. On Sept. 1, 1939, the Polish-German crisis culminated in the German invasion of Poland and World War II.

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books on: Polish Corridor  - 5838 results

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Polish Americans: Status Competition in an Ethnic Community
Book by Helena Znaniecka Lopata; Prentice-Hall, 1976
Subjects: Polish Americans
-i- POLISH AMERICAN Status Competition in an...LOPATA, HELENA ZNANIECKI, date Polish Americans . Ethnic groups in American life Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Polish Americans. I. Title. E184.P7L66 301.4519185073...
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Stranger in Our Midst: Images of the Jew in Polish Literature
Book by Harold B. Segel; Cornell University Press, 1996
Subjects: Jews--Poland--Literary Collections, Polish Literature--Translations Into English
...Fredro The Baroque Poem Polish Romantic Drama Twentieth-Century...in Our Midst Images of the Jew in Polish Literature Edited with an Introduction...Stranger in our midst : images of the Jew in Polish literature / edited with an introduction...
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The Lion and the Eagle: Reminiscences of Polish Second World War Veterans in Scotland
Book by Dr Diana M Henderson; Cualann Press, 2001
Subjects: Poles--Scotland--Biography, World War, 1939-1945--Personal Narratives, Polish, World War, 1939-1945--Scotland, World War, 1939-1945--Scotland--Refugees
...final objectives of the 2 nd Polish Corps. Near the final objective...was then carried along empty corridors with footsteps echoing on...father joined the retreating Polish Division, making his way to...sister and I were left in the corridor between the two advancing...
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The Persian Corridor and Aid to Russia
Book by T. H. Vail Motter; Office of the Chief of Military History, 1952
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Iran, World War, 1939-1945--Soviet Union, World War, 1939-1945--Supplies
...partnership of Great Britain and the United States in the Persian Corridor. A few figures will indicate the reality Hitler feared...American forces in the area, and to support large numbers of Polish refugees, British and American civilian agencies, and the...
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Polish-Soviet Relations, 1932-1939
Book by Bohdan B. Budurowycz; Columbia University Press, 1963
Subjects: Poland--Foreign Relations--Soviet Union, Soviet Union--Foreign Relations--Poland
...editorials in the Polish press which praised...conflict over the Corridor, and the expected...compensation for the Corridor in the Ukraine...The honeymoon of Polish-Russian friendship...solution of the Polish dilemma in an arrangement...Poland would cede the Corridor to Germany and...
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journal articles on: Polish Corridor  - 93 results

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The "Polish Problem" -- American War-Time Perspectives(*)
Journal article by Christopher G. Salisbury; The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 46, 2000
Subjects: Cold War--Causes of, International relations--Political aspects, Poland--History, United States--Relations with Poland
...East Prussia, Danzig and the "Polish Corridor" should be subsumed into post-war...Polish territory -- the so-called Polish Corridor from west of Danzig through...inevitable designs on Danzig and the Polish Corridor, and against the nations historical...
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Accomplices with Reservations: German Diplomats and the Preparation of the Polish Campaign of September 1939 (1)
Journal article by Jurgen Angelow; The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 50, 2004
Subjects: Broszat, Martin--Political activity, Diplomats--Political activity, Europe--Military aspects, Europe--Politics and government, Germany--Military aspects, Germany--Political aspects, Goring, Hermann--Political activity, Hitler, Adolf--Political activity, Rosenberg, Alfred--Political activity, Schacht, Hjalmar Horace Greeley--Political activity, War--Influence, Wars--Influence, World War II, 1939-1945--Influence
...rail connection through the "Polish corridor". The German-Polish Non-Aggression...the re-incorporation of the Polish Corridor and Upper Silesia. It is true...South Tyrol, Danzig and the "Polish Corridor". However these were to be achieved...
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Borderland Nationalism, Westward Migration, and Anti-Polish Aggression: The Case of the Grenzmark Posen-Westpreussen, 1919-1939
Journal article by Edmund Spevack; East European Quarterly, Vol. 30, 1996
Subjects: Germany--20th century AD, Poland--20th century AD, Provinces--Germany, Regionalism--Germany
...integrated into the newly established Polish state. The "corridor" of Polish territory now lay between the Free City of Danzig...German citizens were either driven out of what was now Polish territory, or they suddenly found themselves living...
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Everyday Milieux and Culture of Displacement: A Comparative Investigation into Space, Place and (Non)attachment within the German-Polish Twin City Guben/Gubin
Journal article by Jorg Durrschmidt, Ulf Matthiesen; Canadian Journal of Urban Research, Vol. 11, 2002
Subjects: Cities and towns--History, City and town life--Social aspects, Displacement (Psychology)--Social aspects, Sociology, Urban--Research
...between the administrative boundaries of Berlin and the German/Polish border, Guben/Gubin neither functions as an edge city, nor...somewhere between 15 to 20 percent across and along the border corridor, is higher than the national average(s) (cf. Gruchman and Walk...
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Spain and the Nazi Occupation of Poland, 1939-44
Journal article by Wayne H. Bowen; International Social Science Review, Vol. 82, 2007
Subjects: Civil war--History, Civil war--Spain, Polish foreign relations--Military aspects, Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939--History, Spanish foreign relations--Military aspects
...Polish newspapers complained that the Spanish press went out of its way to present the Nazi perspective concerning the Polish Corridor and Danzig, there does seem to have been genuinely warm feeling in the Hispano-Polish relationship. (15) In early...
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magazine articles on: Polish Corridor  - 71 results

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Six Polish Women
Magazine article by Leslie Epstein; The American Prospect, Vol. 11, October 23, 2000
Subjects: Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Description and travel, Authors--Personal narratives, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives, Jews, Polish--Personal narratives, Travel industry--Poland
...heavy suitcase down the narrow corridor. Ahead of me two, maybe three...much sympathetic clucking in Polish. But the man in our compartment...someone passing through the outer corridor. She whispered in her fathers...said something to his wife in Polish, and they chuckled. "It is...
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Hitler's Lightning Strike: The German Army's Training, Discipline and Blitzkrieg Tactics-Directed by the Supremely Confident Fuhrer-Swept Away Polish Resistance in 1939. It Took the Shells-Hocked Allies Another Three Years to Catch Up
Magazine article by Andrew Roberts; History Today, Vol. 59, September 2009
Subjects: Blitzkrieg--Planning, Dictators--Evaluation, Germany--Military aspects, Hitler, Adolf--Evaluation, Military personnel--Methods, Military personnel--Training, Military training--Methods, Poland--History, Poland--Military aspects
...his force in Poznia and the Polish Corridor. As so often in the history...Bock, would smash through the Polish Corridor, take Danzig (modern-day Gdansk...not reopened until 1948.) The Polish Corridor, which had cut off East Prussia...
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My Dinner with Aleksander
Magazine article by Benjamin Paloff; The Nation, Vol. 278, March 22, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, My Century: The Odyssey of a Polish Intellectual (Book)--Book reviews
...anti-Communists within the Polish government. The magazine was...time in Lubyankas Kafkaesque corridors. The guards who were...quiet, and it was only in that corridor (it was around eleven oclock...exaggerated sense of Wats place in Polish letters, especially in light...
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A Fatal Guarantee: Poland, 1939
Magazine article by Nicholas Henderson; History Today, Vol. 47, October 1997
Subjects: France--History, Poland--History, United Kingdom--History, 1900-, World War, 1939-1945--Causes of
...dictatorial figure who had dominated Polish public life between the wars. Thus...Nations, Danzig, by means of a corridor through German territory, provided...link with East Prussia across the Polish Corridor. The Poles were also anxious over...
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The Next NATO
Magazine article by James Kurth; The National Interest, Fall 2001
Subjects: Globalization--Planning, International relations--Planning, Military policy--Management, North Atlantic Treaty Organization--Planning, Public opinion--Political aspects, Russia--Relations with the United States
...separated from the rest of Germany by the famous Polish Corridor. As such, it was a perpetual irritant in Polish-German relations; along with the city of Danzig, the Polish Corridor provided the occasion for the beginning of the Second...
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newspaper articles on: Polish Corridor  - 83 results

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New Fathers Kept at End of Corridor; Pic of the Past SPECIAL: KERESLEY HOSPITAL MEMORIES
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), September 10, 2004
...they rarely performed to order! Before Matron Pugh-Jones made her ward rounds, we would hurriedly tidy beds and clean and polish lockers, lest her critical gaze would notice something not just so! I remember Matron attending our Christmas party, held...
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You Say Paczki, I Say Yummy Carpentersville Polish Deli Teases the Taste Buds with Homemade Treats
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 15, 2006
...and around the Randall Road corridor to her homemade Polish delights. On any given day youll...cooking inside. "We have many Polish people, but also just Americans...business along the Randall Road corridor from South Elgin to Crystal...
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WOUNDS THAT STILL FESTER; as the Polish Premier Inflames the EU Summit with His Attack on Germans for Their Terrible Crimes against His Country, a Top Historian Says It's Difficult Not to Sympathise with Him
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 23, 2007
Subjects: Historians, Soldiers
...all sense of time. I saw a river of blood flowing down the corridor, washing the bodies of the dead, dying and still living martyrs...territory allotted to Moscow. In the wake of this occupation, every Polish officer and prominent citizen identified by the Russians was...
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Auschwitz Stands as Grisly Monument: Nazis Killed Millions at Polish Site
Newspaper article by Ben Barber; The Washington Times, March 5, 1996
...a traditional Jewish sign of mourning. At Auschwitz I, a Polish army barracks Hitler selected in 1940 to organize the mass...wedged in it. Inside Block 11, down a grimy black-and-tan corridor, there are the rooms where men and women undressed before going...
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An Absolutely De-Lovely Location; Cole Porter Has Graced Pinewood House ... on Film, at Least. Now This Surrey Mansion, Lovingly Restored by a Polish Property Developer, Is on the Market for a Hollywood-Style [Pounds Sterling]3 Million
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 12, 2005
...recessed bed, en suite bathroom and a bay window. A second guest bedroom is to the right of the staircase. A long mirrored corridor leads from the gallery to the master bedroom. This is decorated with hand-painted wallpaper and graced by a bed facing a beautiful...
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encyclopedia articles on: Polish Corridor  - 9 results

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Polish Corridor
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
POLISH CORRIDOR strip of German territory...was permitted across the corridor, which separated East Prussia...had once formed part of Polish Pomerania , a large minority...German corridor across the Polish Corridor. Poland rejected these demands...
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Prussia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...from the rest of Prussia by the Polish Corridor ), Hanover , Hesse-Nassau (see...became a hereditary duchy under Polish suzerainty, ruled by a branch of...Oliva , full independence from Polish suzerainty was confirmed to Frederick...
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West Prussia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Versailles (1919) gave most of West Prussia to Poland (see Polish Corridor ) and made Danzig and its environs a free city. The...but in 1945 the Potsdam Conference placed it under Polish administration, where it has remained since...
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Poland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and was declared chief of state. The Treaty of Versailles (1919) gave Poland access to the Baltic Sea via the Polish Corridor and forced Germany to return Prussian Poland to Poland. Gdansk became a free city and parts of Silesia were awarded...
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Pomerania
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and was constituted into the province of West Prussia . In 1919 part of West Prussia was given to Poland (see Polish Corridor ). After the outbreak (1939) of World War II, Germany reannexed the independent state of Danzig and the Pomeranian...
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