Treaty of the Cession of the Memel Territory to Germany (1939)
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (1939)
World War II
Großdeutschland
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany
General Government
Zone interdite
German–Soviet Border and Commercial Agreement (1941)
Tehran Conference (1943)
Moscow Conference and Declaration on Austria (1943)
Yalta Conference (1945)
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Post-World War II
Berlin Declaration (1945)
Potsdam Agreement (1945)
Luxembourg's annexations (1946 and 1949)
Saar Protectorate (1947)
Paris Protocol (1949)
Dutch annexation of Elten and Selfkant (1949)
Belgian annexations (1949)
Esrablishment of East and West Germany (1949)
Treaty of Zgorzelec (1950)
Minor territorial exchanges between East Germany and Poland (1949 and 1951)
Bonn–Paris conventions and de facto return of Heligoland from the UK (1952)
Return of Kehl from France (1953)
London and Paris Conferences (1954)
Austrian State Treaty (1955)
Saar Treaty (1956)
"Little Reunification" with Saarland (1957)
Belgium–Germany border treaty and return of the majority of annexations (1958)
Return of Kammerwald from Luxembourg (1959)
Ausgleichsvertrag (1960)
Return of Selfkant (1963)
Polish–East German Baltic Continental Shelf Delimitation Treaty (1968)
Treaty of Moscow (1970)
Treaty of Warsaw (1970)
Four Power Agreement on Berlin (1971)
Basic Treaty (1972)
Treaty of Prague (1973)
United Nations Security Council Resolution 335 (1973)
Polish–East German Maritime Boundary in Pomeranian Bay Delimitation Treaty (1989)
German–Polish Border Treaty (1990)
Two Plus Four Treaty (1991)
Treaty of Good Neighbourship (1991)
Areas and issues
Alsace–Lorraine
Former eastern territories of Germany
German question
Hallstein Doctrine
Drang nach Osten
Lebensraum
Ostpolitik
Adjacent countries
Territorial evolution of France
Territorial evolution of Poland
Territorial evolution of Switzerland
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Territorial evolution of Poland in the 20th century
Pre-World War II
Revolution in Congress Poland (1905–1907)
Ostrowiec Republic
Zagłębie Republic
Separation of Kholm Governorate from Congress Poland and annexation into Russian Kiev General Governorate (1913)
Act of 5th November by the Central Powers proclaiming Kingdom of Poland (1916)
Central Powers-Ukrainian People's Republic/Ukrainian State Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918)
Central Powers-Soviet Russia Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918)
Short-lived Byelorussian, Ukrainian and Rusyn republics (1917-1920): West Ukrainian People's (later absorbed into Poland-allied Ukrainian People 's), Belarusian Democratic, Lemko, Komancza
Local revolts and transient polities in postwar power vacuum (1918)
Tarnobrzeg Republic
Republic of Zakopane
First Republic of Pińczów
Witkowo Revolt
Republic of Ostrów
Restoration of Polish independence (1918) and ensuing wars to preseve it (1918-1922):
Greater Poland uprising
Silesian Uprisings
Polish–Czechoslovak War
Polish-West Ukrainian War
War of Polish-Ukrainian alliance against Soviet Russia (1920-1921) and its satellites:
Ukrainian SSR
short-lived Galician SSR later merged into the former
short-lived SSR of Lithuania and Belorussia
attempted Polish SSR later dissolved and replaced with token Polish National Districts
Polish-Lithuanian War
Treaty of Versailles (1919)
Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919)
Suwałki Agreement (1920)
Treaty of Warsaw (1920) with Ukrainian People's Republic
1920 East Prussian plebiscite (1920)
Polish satellite states
Republic of Central Lithuania (1920-1922)
Free City of Danzig under League of Nations protection (1921-1939)
Peace of Riga (1921): eastern border of Poland accepted by Russian SFSR and its satellites (Byelorussian SSR which replaced SSR of Lithuania and Belorussia, and Ukrainian SSR which replaced Ukrainian People's Republic)
Taken Lands (remainder of Russian partition of Poland)
Wileńszczyzna
Grodzieńszczyzna
Lwów Land
Areas of Galicia and Lodomeria east of river San
Kresy Zachodnie ("Western Borderlands")
1815-1918 used as synonymous with entire Prussian partition of Poland
1918-1945 used in altered meaning
regions unsuccessfully claimed from Germany by interwar Poland, in particular Upper Silesia, Warmia, Masuria, Powiśle, Posen-West Prussia, sometimes also Starostwo of Draheim, Lauenburg and Bütow Land and easternmost Hither Pomerania (Lands of Schlawe and Stolp)
Zaolzie
After 1945, the former eastern territories of Germany were called Recovered Territories, while the term Kresy Zachodnie fell into disuse, though it was sometimes invoked to denote Polish claims to some East German territories such as Wolgast Pomerania, Milsko, Miśnia or Lausitz, raised typically only until early 1970s as counterclaims to retaliate for West German calls for revision of Oder–Neisse line.
Demarcation lines
Greater Poland military demarcation line (1919-1920)
Cieszyn Silesia demarcation line (1918-1920)
Polish–Lithuanian demarcation line (1919-1920)
Curzon Line (1920)
Upper Silesia demarcation line (1921-1922)
Polish–Lithuanian demarcation line (1923-1938)
Oder–Neisse line (1945–1951)
Adjacent countries
Territorial evolution of Germany
Territorial changes of the Baltic states
Territorial evolution of Russia
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Percentage of Poles living on the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth territories, c. 1900
The Polish Corridor (German: Polnischer Korridor; Polish: Pomorze, Polski Korytarz), also known as the Danzig Corridor, Corridor to the Sea or Gdańsk Corridor, was a territory located in the region of Pomerelia (Pomeranian Voivodeship, eastern Pomerania, formerly part of West Prussia), which provided the Second Republic of Poland (1920–1939) with access to the Baltic Sea, thus dividing the bulk of Weimar Germany from the province of East Prussia. At its narrowest point, the Polish territory was just 30 km wide.[1] 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.
A similar territory, also occasionally referred to as a corridor, was originally connected to the Polish Crown until 1308, and was later reclaimed as part of Royal Prussia during the period 1466–1772.[2][3]
^"Польский коридор" in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969–1978 (in Russian)
^A History of Western Civilization: Then came the acquisition of Prussia (separated from Brandenburg by the "Polish corridor") page 382, author Roland N. Stromberg Dorsey Press 1969.
^The Scandinavians in History. "Brandenburg, by the acquisition of Eastern Pomerania besides other territories within the empire was firmly established on the Baltic, though a Polish corridor running between Eastern Pomerania and East Prussia to Danzig denied her all she desired", page 174, author Stanley Mease Toyne. Ayer Publishing 1970
The PolishCorridor (German: Polnischer Korridor; Polish: Pomorze, Polski Korytarz), also known as the Danzig Corridor, Corridor to the Sea or Gdańsk Corridor...
inhabitants of the Polish territory that separated the German exclave of East Prussia from the rest of the Reich. The PolishCorridor constituted land long...
not accept the loss of Danzig along with the loss of the so-called PolishCorridor and Upper Silesia to Poland, and for the entirety of the interwar period...
returned forthwith to the German Reich. The territory known as the PolishCorridor, that is to say, the territory bounded by the Baltic Sea and a line...
access to the Baltic Sea via a short strip of coastline known as the PolishCorridor on either side of the city of Gdynia. Between March and August 1939...
Zangezur corridor (Armenian: Զանգեզուրի միջանցք, romanized: Zangezuri mijantsk; Azerbaijani: Zəngəzur dəhlizi) is a concept for a transport corridor which...
separated from Germany following the Treaty of Versailles by the PolishCorridor of the Second Polish Republic. By 1939, Poland had already refused demands made...
authors in reaction to the loss of eastern territories and the Polish Corridor. The concept of Drang nach Osten became a core element of Nazi ideology...
1939, Hitler demanded the return of the Free City of Danzig and the PolishCorridor, a strip of land that separated East Prussia from the rest of Germany...
Slavic Corridor was a term for two territorial disputes after the First World War: Czech CorridorPolishCorridor This disambiguation page lists articles...
Danzig was established on territory awarded in 1919, the so-called PolishCorridor. By 1933, the commerce passing through Gdynia exceeded that of Danzig...
Poland and made East Prussia an exclave of Weimar Germany (the new PolishCorridor separated East Prussia from the rest of Germany), while the Memel Territory...
of 1939 on Danzig and the PolishCorridor provoked yet another international crisis. On August 25, Britain signed the Polish-British Common Defence Pact...
Treaty of Versailles in the PolishCorridor, is a large area of mostly forest. Its difficult terrain was thought by the Polish high command as a good defensive...
Reich". Henderson wrote to Halifax about Danzig and the PolishCorridor: "Can we allow the Polish government to be too uncompromising with them?" Henderson...
March 1939, a Polish offer made by Lipski for a joint German-Polish guarantee of Danzig and for customs-free travel across the PolishCorridor was rejected...
and symbols of the city's maritime orientation and history. From the PolishCorridor, many ethnic Germans were forced to leave throughout the 1920s and...
of Versailles, a part of Germany designated "the Polishcorridor" was given to the new Second Polish Republic, for access to the Baltic Sea. This gave...
withdrawing German troops and civilians from Courland, East Prussia, and the PolishCorridor. The flood of refugees turned the operation into one of the largest...
defeat in World War I, Pomerelia became part of the Second Polish Republic (PolishCorridor) and the Free City of Danzig was created. Germany's Province...
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