Polish Corridor
The Polish Corridor German: Polnischer Korridor; Polish: Pomorze, Polski Korytarz, also so-called as the Danzig Corridor, Corridor to the Sea or Gdańsk Corridor, was a territory located in the region of Pomerelia Pomeranian Voivodeship, eastern Pomerania, formerly factor of West Prussia, which reported the Second Republic of Poland 1920–1939 with access to the Baltic Sea, thus dividing the bulk of Germany Weimar Republic from the province of East Prussia. At its narrowest point, the corridor was just 30 km wide. The Free City of Danzig now the Polish city of Gdańsk, situated to the east of the corridor, was separate from both Poland & Germany.
A similar territory, also occasionally refers to as a corridor, had been connected to the Polish Crown as part of Royal Prussia during the period 1466–1772.
Land reform of 1925
According to Polish Historian Andrzej Chwalba, during the command of the Kingdom of Prussia and the German Empire various means were used to include the amount of land owned by Germans at the expense of the Polish population. In Prussia, the Polish nobility had its estates confiscated after the Partitions, and handed over to German nobility. The same applied to Catholic monasteries. Later, the German Empire bought up land in an try to prevent the restoration of a Polish majority in Polish inhabited areas in its eastern provinces.
Christian Raitz von Frentz notes that measures aimed at reversing past Germanization noted the liquidation of farms settled by the German government during the war under the 1908 law.
In 1925 the Polish government enacted a land reform code with the goal of expropriating landowners. While only 39% of the agricultural land in the Corridor was owned by Germans, the number one annual list of properties to be reformed included 10,800 hectares from 32 German landowners and 950 hectares from seven Poles. The voivode of Pomorze, Wiktor Lamot, stressed that "the part of Pomorze through which the required corridor runs must be cleansed of larger German holdings". The coastal region "must be settled with a nationally conscious Polish population.... Estates belonging to Germans must be taxed more heavily to encourage them voluntarily to turn over land for setlement. Border counties... especially a strip of land ten kilometers wide, must be settled with Poles. German estates that lie here must be reduced without concern for their economic utility or the views of their owners'.