1930s books about the Polish Corridor

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Re: 1930s books about the Polish Corridor

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Post by Futurist » 22 Jun 2020, 00:00

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.

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Re: 1930s books about the Polish Corridor

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Post by Futurist » 22 Jun 2020, 00:02

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

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Re: 1930s books about the Polish Corridor

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Post by Futurist » 22 Jun 2020, 00:02

More blue = More Catholic
More pink/light red = More Protestant
Purple = Mixed

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Re: 1930s books about the Polish Corridor

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Post by Sid Guttridge » 22 Jun 2020, 07:34

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.

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Re: 1930s books about the Polish Corridor

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Post by Futurist » 22 Jun 2020, 08:08

Sid Guttridge wrote:
22 Jun 2020, 07:34
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.

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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?

As for Czechs, Czechia was made a German protectorate as opposed to being directly annexed to the German Reich.

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Re: 1930s books about the Polish Corridor

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Post by Sid Guttridge » 22 Jun 2020, 11:04

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.

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Re: 1930s books about the Polish Corridor

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Post by Futurist » 22 Jun 2020, 21:17

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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Re: 1930s books about the Polish Corridor

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Post by Sid Guttridge » 22 Jun 2020, 22:59

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.

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Re: 1930s books about the Polish Corridor

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Post by Futurist » 23 Jun 2020, 00:03

Sid Guttridge wrote:
22 Jun 2020, 22:59
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.

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True enough, I suppose.

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Re: 1930s books about the Polish Corridor

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Post by Piotr Kapuscinski » 19 Oct 2020, 08:38

Futurist wrote:
09 Jun 2020, 04:18
What is the source for these two maps?
http://bazhum.muzhp.pl/media//files/Act ... 93-122.pdf

^^^
Mapa 2. and Mapa 3.
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Re: 1930s books about the Polish Corridor

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Post by Futurist » 20 Oct 2020, 22:29

Thanks! :)

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