Polish Corridor

American  

noun

1. a strip of land near the mouth of the Vistula River: formerly separated Germany from East Prussia; given to Poland in the Treaty of Versailles 1919 to provide it with access to the Baltic.

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Polish Corridor British  

noun

1. the strip of land through E Pomerania providing Poland with access to the sea (1919–39), given to her in 1919 in the Treaty of Versailles, and separating East Prussia from the rest of Germany. It is now part of Poland

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Example Sentences

Her paternal grandparents were Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe - specifically, a territory in Pomerania known as the Polish Corridor.

From BBC

He begins with the “rumblings of war over Danzig and the Polish corridor in August 1939” and, more than 400 pages later, ends with the battered, often traumatized and fortunate last soldiers arriving in Britain.

From Washington Post

Indeed, it was the condition of the German minority in Danzig and the so-called Polish "Corridor" that provided the excuse for Adolf Hitler's launching of another world war in September 1939.

From US News

So when Hitler began talking to the Poles in that same month about the Germans' need to regain the port of Danzig, plus free passage through the Polish Corridor, Chamberlain offered the Poles an unsolicited guarantee of British military support.

From Time Magazine Archive

If, instead of invading Poland, he had limited himself to threats and bullying, he might have achieved his main demands, control of Danzig and freedom of movement through the Polish Corridor.

From Time Magazine Archive