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Polish Corridor
noun
- a strip of land near the mouth of the Vistula River: formerly separated Germany from East Prussia; given to Poland in the Treaty of Versailles 1919 to provide it with access to the Baltic.
Polish Corridor
noun
- the strip of land through E Pomerania providing Poland with access to the sea (1919–39), given to her in 1919 in the Treaty of Versailles, and separating East Prussia from the rest of Germany. It is now part of Poland
Example Sentences
Poland was also given a strip of land called the Polish Corridor.
Her paternal grandparents were Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe - specifically, a territory in Pomerania known as the Polish Corridor.
That spring, Germany annexes Czechoslovakia and then demands Danzig and the Polish corridor—the land separating Germany from East Prussia.
He begins with the “rumblings of war over Danzig and the Polish corridor in August 1939” and, more than 400 pages later, ends with the battered, often traumatized and fortunate last soldiers arriving in Britain.
Indeed, it was the condition of the German minority in Danzig and the so-called Polish "Corridor" that provided the excuse for Adolf Hitler's launching of another world war in September 1939.
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