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  Landlocked - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After WWI Poland was given the Danzig Corridor to give it an outlet on the sea.
In the Treaty of Versailles, a part of Germany, designated "the Polish corridor", was given to the new post-WWI country Second Polish Republic, for access to the Baltic Sea, which was also the pretext for making Danzig with its harbour the Free City of Danzig.
A much smaller exterritorial land corridor, for a railway or a road which would connect Germany to East Prussia without artificial obstructions, was denied.
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 Landlocked - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
A landlocked country may be given access to the sea with a corridor, such as the Polish corridor giving this post-WWI country access to the Baltic Sea.
However, one country's corridor may split another country into enclaves, such as East Prussia separated from Germany proper by the same Polish Corridor.
The lack of a land corridor joining Germany to East Prussia was one of the causes of WWII.
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 Worldroots.com
Under the second Peace of Torun in 1466, the territory west of the Vistule River, Royal Prussia, was ceded to Poland and the territory east of the river, Ducal Prussia, became a fief of the Polish crown.
In 1772, under King Frederick II (Frederick the Great), Prussia consisted of the provinces of Brandenburg, Pomerania, Danzig, East Prussia (modern day East Germany, northern Poland and a small portion of the Soviet Union), and West Prussia.
This caused the province of East Prussia to be separated from the rest of the German Empire.
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 Education | Poles
Beginning in October 1939, the SS began to expel Poles and Jews from the Wartheland and the Danzig corridor and transport them to the General Government.
A major camp complex at Stutthof, east of Danzig, existed from September 2, 1939, to war's end, and an estimated 20,000 Poles died there as a result of executions, hard labor, and harsh conditions.
Auschwitz (Oswiecim) became the main concentration camp for Poles after the arrival there on June 14, 1940, of 728 men transported from an overcrowded prison at Tarnow.
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