Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A strip of land between the German territories of Pomerania and East Prussia, awarded to Poland by the Treaty of Versailles (1919) to afford access to the Baltic Sea. After years of friction over control of the area, Germany invaded Poland (1939) and quickly captured the Polish Corridor, triggering World War II and ending the Corridor's existence as a distinct geographical entity.
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Examples
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Other German divisions entered Poland across its northern border, from East Prussia, while still more marched in from the west, cutting through the Polish Corridor created by the Peace Settlement to give Poland access to the Baltic.
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Most fantastic and, as it proved, most disastrous of all the follies of Versailles, was the creation of the free city of Danzig and what was called the Polish Corridor.
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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The angry state of Prussia was now divided into two parts by the Polish Corridor, and Gdansk had become the so-called Free City of Danzig, yearning to unite openly with Prussia.
Poland Michener, James 1983
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Lord Halifax, the British foreign secretary, deemed Danzig and the Polish Corridor to be "an absurdity."
The New American 2009
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As for Germany, the nation lost contiguous territories: Northern Schleswig to Denmark, Eupen and Malmédy to Belgium, Alsace-Lorraine to France, and the Polish Corridor and other lands to the newly recreated Poland.
LewRockwell.com 2009
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Hitler wanted Danzig, which was 95 percent German, and the Polish Corridor, to which the Poles were more attached.
LewRockwell.com 2009
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I’m in the process of reading, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and its pretty clear that Germany did have the kernel of a very strong case for a communication link between the contiguous main part of Germany and the province of East Prussia that was cut off from Germany by the Polish Corridor around Gdansk or Danzig.
Russia: Nazis Just Wanted To Build A Railway Through Poland « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009
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Poland) and the Polish Corridor returned to Germany in exchange for a promise by Hitler to leave the rest of Poland alone.
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