Editing Polish Corridor (section)

== Impact on German through-traffic ==

The [[Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure|German Ministry for Transport]] established the {{lang|de|[[Seedienst Ostpreußen]]}} ('Sea Service East Prussia') in 1922 to provide a ferry connection to [[East Prussia]], now a German exclave, so that it would be less dependent on transit through Polish territory.

Connections by train were also possible by sealing the carriages (''[[Korridorzug]]''), i.e. passengers were not forced to apply for an official Polish [[visa (document)|visa]] in their passport; however, the rigorous inspections by the Polish authorities before and after the sealing were strongly feared by the passengers.<ref>An impression of the psychological consequences of the train sealing is given through the relevant paragraphs of the booklet {{lang|de|Namen, die keiner mehr nennt}} ('Names, no longer called by anyone'), authored by the liberal German journalist [[Marion Dönhoff]].</ref>

In May 1925, a train passing through the corridor on its way to East Prussia crashed, because the [[Rail spikes|spikes]] had been removed from the tracks for a short distance and the [[fishplate]]s unbolted. 25 people including 12 women and 2 children were killed, while some 30 others were injured.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,728448,00.html |title = time.com May 11, 1925 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090209054522/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,728448,00.html |archive-date = 9 February 2009 |url-status = dead |access-date = 7 December 2008 }}</ref>