West Prussia
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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
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
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
But in the fifteenth century the tyrannical severity of the Teutonic order had driven the German cities and landowners of West Prussia to an alliance with Poland.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 by Various
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