August 1939 Nazi propaganda postcards about the Polish Corridor

[Futurist]

Here you go:

[Futurist]

Also, interestingly enough, as this Nazi propaganda poster states, Poland's western border did, in fact, end up extending all of the way west to Stettin in 1945, just six years after this Nazi propaganda poster was made.

[Piotr Kapuscinski]

Those maps show that Germans had a very broad definition of the "Corridor", which included even Provinz Posen.

Apparently they considered entire Prussian Poland (all of lands taken by Prussia from Poland before 1795 and returned to Poland after WW1) - including even the region of Greater Poland - to be the "Polish Corridor". And let's remember, that Polish western border during the 18th century before the Partitions was located more to the west than post-WW1 Polish western border (not all lands taken from Poland by Prussia until 1795 were returned after WW1). This map shows the course of the north-western border of Poland before the Partitions:

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And here I have underlined the border with a red line, for better visibility:

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[Piotr Kapuscinski]

When we go more to the south (along the western border of Poland), then before the Partitions the situation was like this map below shows. After the end of WW1, the new border was also delineated to the east of the 18th century border, so not all lands returned to Poland. The westernmost town located in Poland before the Partitions, was Trzemeszno Lubuskie, or Czarnomyśl (German: Schermeisel):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trzemeszno_Lubuskie

Towns such as Międzyrzecz (Meseritz) and Skwierzyna (Schwerin) were in Poland in the 1700s, but in Germany after WW1. Międzychód (Birnbaum) was returned to Poland after WW1, and Wieleń (Filehne) was split in half (southern part in Poland, northern in Germany):

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And this map shows the network of settlements in roughly the same territory during the 2nd half of the 16th century:

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[Futurist]

Those maps show that Germans had a very broad definition of the "Corridor", which included even Provinz Posen.

Apparently they considered entire Prussian Poland (all of lands taken by Prussia from Poland before 1795 and returned to Poland after WW1) - including even the region of Greater Poland - to be the "Polish Corridor". And let's remember, that Polish western border during the 18th century before the Partitions was located more to the west than post-WW1 Polish western border (not all lands taken from Poland by Prussia until 1795 were returned after WW1). This map shows the course of the north-western border of Poland before the Partitions:

Click to enlarge:

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And here I have underlined the border with a red line, for better visibility:

Click to enlarge:

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Did you make these maps completely by yourself, Peter?

[Futurist]

Also, this map might be of relevance here:

http://files.foreignaffairs.com/legacy/ ... 0403-1.jpg



In addition to this, though, Yes, it is certainly extremely nonsensical to consider Posen Province to be a part of the Polish Corridor considering that Prussia wasn't even allowed to keep Posen Province in the 1807 Treaty of Tilsit:

https://www.college.columbia.edu/core/s ... iamap3.gif