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Following the empire's defeat in World War I, Pomerelia became part of the Second Polish Republic (Polish Corridor) and the Free City of Danzig was created.
The province of Pomerania became a battlefield on January 26, 1945, when in the pretext of the Red Army's East Pomeranian Offensive Soviet tanks entered the province near Schneidemühl , which surrendered on February 13.
In 1956 Poland was on the verge of a Soviet invasion, but the crisis was solved and the Polish government's communism developed a more human face with Władysław Gomułka as the head of politburo. Poland developed the ports of Pomerania and restored the destroyed shipyards of Gdańsk , Gdynia and Szczecin .
With respect to Polish Pomerania, Nazi diplomacy – as part of their initial attempts to subordinate Poland into Anti-Comintern Pact – aimed at incorporation of the Free City of Danzig into the Third Reich and an extra-territorial transit route through Polish territory, which was rejected by the Polish government, that feared economic blackmail b...
Bear in mind that when borders shift in Europe, the 'shifter' usually has some sort of (usually weak) justification, like Danzig being a former part of Poland-Lithuania and Alsace-Lorraine being a part of the HRE before 1680. However I don't think east Pomerania and east Brandenburg was ever Polish, although Silesia had a Polish minority.
- Post-World War II Poland was "designed" by the British foreign office, presented by Churchill, and ratified by Roosevelt and Stalin at the Tehran C...
- Borders Post-war Polish borders were agreed upon in Teheran (1943) and finalized in Yalta (1945) by the "Big 3" . The land was taken from Germ...
- You're right to say that Germany's loss of territory to Poland in 1945 was "harsh" judged by the principle that borders should be delineated accord...
- Addition to the answers given so far: Since the Potsdam treaty (and other agreements between the "Big 3") was not signed by Germany itself, it was...
- Poland was simply ethnically cleansed by the Russians who force marched entire German families out of Silesia into east Germany. Before there was...
The Pomeranian province was invaded by French troops in 1806 and again in 1812.
Polish Pomerania with a part of Kashubia was made part of Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia. The German state set up concentration camps, performed expulsion of the Poles and Jews, and systematically engaged in genocide of people they regarded as Untermensch (primarily, Jews and ethnic Poles ).
