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     • Polish Corridor, strip of land, 20 to 70 miles (32 to 112 km) wide, that gave the newly reconstituted state of Poland access to the Baltic Sea after World War I (1914–18).
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   What was the Danzig corridor after WW1?

   • The Danzig Corridor : Post-World War I most of West Prussia and the province of Posen was ceded to the newly-formed Polish state, while the free port city of Danzig was under the protection of the League of Nations.

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   What happened to Danzig after WW1?

   • With that, the German invasion of Poland became World War II. Following World War I, the Treaty of Versailles (1918) declared Danzig to be a free city administered by Poland and the League of Nations. Germany resented the loss of this largely German city. After invading Poland in September 1939, Nazi Germany annexed Danzig.

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   Was Danzig a free city after WW1?

   • Following World War I, the Treaty of Versailles (1918) declared Danzig to be a free city administered by Poland and the League of Nations. Germany resented the loss of this largely German city. Hitler was determined to overturn the military and territorial provisions of the Versailles treaty.

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   How long was the Polish Corridor?

   • The corridor, which was approximately 100 miles long and 20 miles wide, passed through the territory of the former German province of Pomerania and included the city of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). The Polish Corridor in 1923–1939. The Polish Corridor was a strip of land created after the First World War to give Poland access to the Baltic Sea.

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   Was Danzig a German city?

   • The Free City of Danzig (now the Polish cities of Gdańsk, Sopot and the surrounding areas), situated to the east of the corridor, was a semi-independent German speaking city-state forming part of neither Germany nor Poland, though united with the latter through an imposed union covering customs, mail, foreign policy, railways as well as defence.

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   What happened to the Polish Corridor in 1939?

   • In September 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, and the Polish Corridor was quickly overrun. The German conquest of the corridor was a significant blow to the Polish military and helped pave the way for the German victory in the war. Nazi flags hanging on buildings in a street, Polish Corridor, Danzig, August 1939.

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   The Polish Corridor (German: Polnischer Korridor; Polish: korytarz polski), also known as the Pomeranian Corridor, Danzig Corridor or Gdańsk Corridor, was a territory located in the region of Pomerelia (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Eastern Pomerania), which provided the Second Polish Republic with access to the Baltic Sea, thus dividing the bulk of ...

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   The Danzig Corridor : Post-World War I most of West Prussia and the province of Posen was ceded to the newly-formed Polish state, while the free port city of Danzig was under the protection of the League of Nations.

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   This completely new port north of Danzig was established on territory awarded in 1919, the so-called Polish Corridor. By 1933, the commerce passing through Gdynia exceeded that of Danzig. [11] . By 1936, the city's senate had a majority of local Nazis, and agitation to rejoin Germany was stepped up. [12] . Many Jews fled from German persecution.

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   The Treaty of Versailles, imposed on Germany following its defeat in World War I, declared Danzig to be a free city jointly administered by Poland and the League of Nations. Germany bitterly resented the loss of this largely German city, which was also an important port on the Baltic Sea.

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   The Polish Corridor, also known as the Danzig Corridor, was a strip of land that was established after World War I to connect the newly independent Poland with the Baltic Sea.

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   May 23, 2018 · It was created by the Treaty of Versailles after World War I, when Poland became independent. The city of Gdańsk , near the mouth of the Vistula , was made a free city but, dominated by Germans, excluded Polish enterprise.