of Nations on November 9, 1920, in accordance with the terms of the same   
treaty.  It was re-incorporated in Germany on September 1, 1939.  It is   
claimed by Poland as a port essential to Polish economy.  In the   
post-war disposition of the former Free City, whose legal status is   
quite complex, the League of Nations and Danzig itself, as well as   
Poland and Germany, are interested parties.  The question is closely   
            connected with that of East Prussia.            
 
                                                            
 
 
The total area of the free city of Danzig was 731 square miles.  The   
population in 1936 numbered 412,000.  According to the Danzig census of   
1923, the Free City had a total population of 366,730, of whom 12,027   
                  spoke Polish or Kashub.                   
 
                                                            
 
 
8. POLISH TERRITORY ANNEXED BY GERMANY IN 1939.-- Poland's possession of   
the so-called "Corridor". the Poznan area, and the major part of the   
Upper Silensian industrial area, acquired from Germany after the first   
World War, was a serious source of friction between Poland and Germany   
from 1919 to 1939.  This territory which had not been apart of pre-1914   
Germany.  This area, comprising the richest agricultural and industrial   
pars of pre-war Poland, had a agricultural and industrial parts of   
pre-war Poland, had a population in 1939 of some ten million, of whom   
only 680,000 wer Germans.  Many Germans, perhaps as many as one million,   
have been settled there in accordance with the Nazi plan to "Germanize"   
                  the annexed territories.                  
 
                                                            
 
 
9. GERMAN TERITORY EAST OD THE ODER RIVER.-- Polish claims to German   
territory in Pomerania and Lower Silesia have not been precisely defined.   
 Some suggestions include all territory up to the Oder River.  At the   
very least Poland is likely to claim a line running from the   
north-western corner of the Polish province of Poznan to Kolberg of the   
Baltic Sea, and seems assured of British and Soviet support for this   
claim.  The smaller territory in question has an approximatel area of   
7,770 square miles and a population, almost entirely German-speaking, of   
750,000.  The larger area, up to the Oder River, has an area of 18, 300   
square miles and a solidly German population of about two and one-half   
                         millions.                          
 
                                                            
 
 
10. GERMAN UPPER SILESIA.-- The area in questionis the pre-war German   
regierungsbezirk of Oppeln, which included the territory awarded to   
                Germany by the Conference of                
 
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