When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, every patriotic young German eagerly looked to the day when Germany would eliminate the Polish Corridor which joins Poland to the Baltic and separates the ...

German-Polish interests clashed over the small territory of Danzig (today Gdańsk, Poland), primarily inhabited by German speakers. To avoid future confrontation and preserve peace, the newly ...

Irmgard Furchner — who was a secretary to Paul-Werner Hoppe, the SS commander of the Nazi German concentration camp Stutthof outside Danzig, now Gdansk in Poland — was convicted in 2022 as an ...

Germany was divided by the Danzig corridor which isolated eastern Prussia from the rest of the country. Berlin lost 15 per cent of its territory and 10 per cent of its population. The regions of ...