West Prussia

American  

noun

1. a former province of Prussia: since 1945 part of Poland.

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West Prussia British  

noun

1. German name: Westpreussen.  a former province of NE Prussia, on the Baltic: assigned to Poland in 1945

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Other Word Forms

• West Prussian
  adjective

Example Sentences

Though still physically united -- minus West Prussia, which was turned over to the newly independent Poland to give it a corridor to the sea -- Germany was still divided against itself.

From Time Magazine Archive

A newly independent Poland acquired parts of the German industrial area of Upper Silesia, Posen and West Prussia, providing it with a corridor to the Baltic Sea.

From Time Magazine Archive

Moreover, Poland has an air force of 1,500 planes, and Poles are fond of saying that while Berlin is only 80 miles from the Polish border, Warsaw is 170 from West Prussia.

From Time Magazine Archive

The girls’ work was soon expanded to include the Danzig area in West Prussia and Upper Silesia.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Germany cedes to Poland the greater part of Upper Silesia, Posen and the province of West Prussia on the left bank of the Vistula.

From World's War Events Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)