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The Polish Corridor: A Strip of Land That Shaped 20th-Century Europe
After World War I, the Treaty of Versailles carved a narrow strip of land — the Polish Corridor — from German territory to give Poland access to the Baltic Sea. This seemingly small territorial adjustment ignited one of the most bitter disputes in interwar Europe, poisoned German-Polish relations, and became a central grievance exploited by Adolf Hitler to justify the invasion of Poland in 1939. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the corridor's creation, its economic and strategic importance for the new Polish state, the construction of the rival port of Gdynia, and the impossible…
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