1930s books about the Polish Corridor
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Wouldn't annexing the Polish Corridor have given Germany roughly as many Protestants as it would Catholics, though? Of course, the Catholics involved would be primarily Polish as opposed to German.
Re: 1930s books about the Polish Corridor
This map appears to indicate that the Polish Corridor was largely--albeit certainly not completely--Catholic in Imperial German times:
https://external-preview.redd.it/atEbVh ... 67650d2e82
https://external-preview.redd.it/atEbVh ... 67650d2e82
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More blue = More Catholic
More pink/light red = More Protestant
Purple = Mixed
More pink/light red = More Protestant
Purple = Mixed
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Re: 1930s books about the Polish Corridor
Hi Futurist,
I don't think it was part of Hitler's project to bring ethnic Poles into the Reich. In fact his regime began to expel them to clear the way for resettlement of Baltic Germans and others.
If one includes non-Germans, then the Czechs would already have given the Reich a marginal Catholic majority.
Cheers,
Sid.
I don't think it was part of Hitler's project to bring ethnic Poles into the Reich. In fact his regime began to expel them to clear the way for resettlement of Baltic Germans and others.
If one includes non-Germans, then the Czechs would already have given the Reich a marginal Catholic majority.
Cheers,
Sid.
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Did Hitler actually expel the Poles who lived in the Polish Corridor and Posen before 1918 or only those Poles who settled there after 1918?Sid Guttridge wrote: ↑22 Jun 2020, 07:34Hi Futurist,
I don't think it was part of Hitler's project to bring ethnic Poles into the Reich. In fact his regime began to expel them to clear the way for resettlement of Baltic Germans and others.
If one includes non-Germans, then the Czechs would already have given the Reich a marginal Catholic majority.
Cheers,
Sid.
As for Czechs, Czechia was made a German protectorate as opposed to being directly annexed to the German Reich.
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Hi Futurist,
The Protrctorate appears in the Reich Statistical Year Books as part of the Reich.
The Germans had different policies depending on the Gauleiter. In Danzig-West Pressen, where the corridor lay, Assimilation according to Nazi racial criteria was prefered. In Wartheland expulsion was prefered. In all cases the Polish intelignensia and Catholic priests were got rid of.
Sid
The Protrctorate appears in the Reich Statistical Year Books as part of the Reich.
The Germans had different policies depending on the Gauleiter. In Danzig-West Pressen, where the corridor lay, Assimilation according to Nazi racial criteria was prefered. In Wartheland expulsion was prefered. In all cases the Polish intelignensia and Catholic priests were got rid of.
Sid
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Interesting. The reason that I got the impression that pre-1918 Poles in Nazi Germany's annexed Polish territories were allowed to stay is because I believe that Michael Mills previously said something along those lines in one of his posts.
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Hi Futurist,
Michael Mills usually knows his facts, in so far as they go. It is his interpretations of them that are sometimes more questionable.
Cheers,
Sid
Michael Mills usually knows his facts, in so far as they go. It is his interpretations of them that are sometimes more questionable.
Cheers,
Sid
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True enough, I suppose.Sid Guttridge wrote: ↑22 Jun 2020, 22:59Hi Futurist,
Michael Mills usually knows his facts, in so far as they go. It is his interpretations of them that are sometimes more questionable.
Cheers,
Sid
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Re: 1930s books about the Polish Corridor
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