Was this a good idea? Was it necessary?
>>366290
Majority Polish population. Strong anti-German feelings there. If it wasn't given to Poland outright, it would rebel out of Germany like Posen did.
>>366290
A good idea for the people who lived there, but eventually it led to world war two, so not in the grand scheme of things.
>>366290
there was no solution to it without forced resettlement, it was majority Polish and obviously Poland wouldn't be content with being landlocked, they'd just take it when Germany was weak like with Posen/Poznan and Upper Silesia
>>366290
Corridor Poles aside, the arrangement was extremely beneficial for Danzig which made a bank serving as low-tariff area.
>>366357
Were 1945-tier population transfers feasible in 1919?
>>366373
no, and if they were attempted it'd just spark a slightly different ww2
>>366373
They were quite unthinkable. They were unthinkable even for the Polish government in 1944.
>>366373
Invite the soviets into your territory and forced resettlement is always on the table
>>366301
Gdansk was majorly German back then. That's why we call it Danzig when reffering to this period. It's true that historically it was a Polish clay two or three times as long as it was German.
>>366426
I think the OP is about the corridor.
>>366290
Yes, the Entente plan was to make Poland the equivalent to Russia in order to sandwich Germany, a landlocked Poland would pretty much be a German puppet.
Of course this premise lead Polish foreign policy in the interwar period to be a massive clusterfuck.
>>366290
Yes and yes. The area was majority Polish and thus it was within the principle of self determination. And that time out was so obvious to everyone that it should be Polish that even the Brits (who did much to weaken Poland and limit the Polish borders) did not oppose that.
And no, the WW2 did not happen over Danzig or the Corridor. It was just a pretext.
