Editing Polish Corridor (section)

====Ethnographic reasons====
[[File:Ethnic structure of eastern regions of Prussia.png|thumb|Ethnic structure of the eastern regions of Prussia in 1817–1823]]
[[File:Poles Prussia.png|thumb|Poles in the Kingdom of Prussia during the 19th century:  {{legend|#710023|90% - 100% Polish}}  {{legend|#990030|80% - 90% Polish}}  {{legend|#e80000|70% - 80% Polish}}  {{legend|#ff2a00|60% - 70% Polish}}  {{legend|#ff5b00|50% - 60% Polish}}  {{legend|#fff600|20% - 50% Polish}}  {{legend|#fdff74|5% - 20% Polish}}  ]]
The ethnic situation was one of the reasons for returning the area to the restored Poland.<ref>''The Danzig Dilemma; A Study in Peacemaking by Compromise''{{snd}}"This report was origin of the famous Polish corridor to the Baltic which the Commission proposed on ethnographic grounds as well as to give Poland her promised free and secure access to the sea", John Brown Mason, page 50</ref> The majority of the population in the area was Polish.<ref name="katyn">Anna M. Cienciala, Natalia Sergeevna Lebedeva, Wojciech Materski, Maia A. Kipp, ''Katyn: A Crime without Punishment'', Yale University Press, 2008, {{ISBN|0-300-10851-6}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=9sh2-7_biKwC&dq=%22Polish+Corridor%22&pg=PA15 Google Print, p.15]</ref> As the Polish commission report to the [[Supreme War Council|Allied Supreme Council]] noted on 12 March 1919: "Finally the fact must be recognized that 600,000 Poles in West Prussia would under any alternative plan remain under German rule".<ref>''The Danzig Dilemma; a Study in Peacemaking by Compromise: A Study in Peacemaking by Compromise''. John Brown Mason. page 49</ref> Also, as [[David Hunter Miller]] from president [[Woodrow Wilson]]'s group of experts and academics (known as [[The Inquiry]]) noted in his diary from the [[Paris Peace Conference, 1919|Paris Peace Conference]]: "If Poland does not thus secure access to the sea, 600,000 [[Polish people|Poles]] in [[West Prussia]] will remain under [[Partitions of Poland|German rule]] and 20,000,000 Poles in Poland proper will probably have but a hampered and precarious commercial outlet".<ref name="Hunter Miller">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/MyDiaryAtConferenceOfParis-Vol4/Miller--MyDiaryAtConferenceOfParis-Vol4#page/n239/mode/2up|title=My Diary at Conference of Paris|last=Hunter Miller|first=David|publisher=Appeal Printing Company|year=1924|volume=IV|location=New York|pages=224–227}}</ref> The Prussian census of 1910 showed that there were 528,000 Poles (including West Slavic [[Kashubians]], who had supported the Polish national lists in [[Elections in Germany|German elections]]<ref>''Gdańskie Zeszyty Humanistyczne: Seria pomorzoznawcza'' Page 17, Wyższa Szkoła Pedagogiczna (Gdańsk). Wydział Humanistyczny, Instytut Bałtycki, Instytut Bałtycki (Poland) – 1967</ref><ref>''Położenie mniejszości niemieckiej w Polsce 1918–1938'' Page 183, Stanisław Potocki – 1969</ref><ref>Rocznik gdański organ Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauki i Sztuki w Gdańsku – page 100, 1983</ref><ref>''Do niepodległości 1918, 1944/45, 1989: wizje, drogi, spełnienie'' page 43, Wojciech Wrzesiński – 1998</ref>) in the region, compared with 385,000 Germans (including troops and officials stationed in the area).<ref name="international608">"Principles and Problems of International Relations" page 608 H. Arthur Steiner – 1940</ref><ref>{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=80r6Mbnxf8IC&q=Appendix&pg=PA243| title = (Appendix B. German Population of Western Poland by Province and Country)| isbn = 0813130417| last1 = Blanke| first1 = Richard| publisher = University Press of Kentucky}}</ref> The province of [[West Prussia]] as a whole had between 36% and 43% ethnic Poles in 1910, depending on the source (the lower number is based directly on German 1910 census figures, while the higher number is based on calculations according to which a large part of those people counted as [[Catholic Germans]] in the official census in fact identified as Poles).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/polesunderprussi00kozi/page/4|title=The Poles under Prussian rule|last=Kozicki|first=Stanislas|publisher=Polish Press Bur.|year=1918|location=London|pages=5}}</ref> The Poles did not want the Polish population to remain under the control of the German state,<ref>''The Danzig Dilemma a Study in Peacemaking by Compromise'' by John Brown Mason Stanford University Press 1946, page 49</ref> which had in the past treated the Polish population and other minorities as second-class citizens<ref>''A History of Modern Germany, 1800–2000'' page 130, Martin Kitchen Blackwell Publishing 2006</ref> and had pursued [[Germanisation|Germanization]]. As Professor [[Lewis Bernstein Namier]] (1888–1960){{snd}}born to Jewish parents in [[Lublin Governorate]] ([[Russian Empire]], former [[Congress Poland]]) and later a British citizen,<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M-q_kl6sbnoC&q=+Namier+&pg=PA128|title=Anti-Semitism before the Holocaust |access-date=2010-12-21 |author=Albert S. Lindemann |publisher=Pearson |year=2000 |page=128 |isbn=978-0-582-36964-1}}<br />
{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0121vD9STIMC&q=namier+niemirowski&pg=PA852|title=Encyclopedia of historians and historical writing |access-date=2009-07-06 |author=Kelly Boyd |publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn |year=1999 |isbn=978-1-884964-33-6}}</ref> a former member of the [[Directorate of Military Intelligence (United Kingdom)|British Intelligence Bureau]] throughout World War I<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u1npAAAAIAAJ&q=namier+propaganda&pg=PA166|title=British Propaganda and the State in the First World War |access-date=2009-07-06 |author=Gary S. Messinger |publisher=Manchester University Press ND|year=1992 |isbn=978-0-7190-3014-7}}</ref> and the British delegation at the [[Versailles conference]],<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gQs_TCzLWpkC&q=namier+peace+conference&pg=PA41|title=Two Worlds of International Relations |access-date=2009-07-06 |author=Christopher Hill, Pamela Beshoff |publisher=Routledge|year=1994 |isbn=978-0-415-06970-0}}</ref> known for his [[Anti-Polish sentiment|anti-Polish]]<ref name="Niepodległość page 58">Niepodległość, Tom 21 Pilsudski Institute of America Instytut Józefa Piłsudskiego Poświecony Badaniu Najnowszej Historii Polski., 1988 page 58</ref> and [[Anti-German sentiment|anti-German]]<ref name="taylor">{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/ajptaylorradical0000wrig|url-access=registration|quote=Namier.|title=A.J.P. Taylor, Radical Historian of Europe|first1=Chris|last1=Wrigley|page=[https://archive.org/details/ajptaylorradical0000wrig/page/70 70]|publisher=I.B. Tauris |year=2006|isbn=1-86064-286-1}}</ref><ref name="crozier">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S2hBXzB7XaYC&q=namier+germanophobia&pg=PA226|title=The causes of the Second World War |first= Andrew J. |last=Crozier|year=1997 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=9780631186014 }}</ref> attitude{{snd}}wrote in the ''[[Manchester Guardian]]'' on November 7, 1933: "The Poles are the Nation of the Vistula, and their settlements extend from the sources of the river to its estuary.&nbsp;... It is only fair that the claim of the river-basin should prevail against that of the seaboard."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Y702017As5MC&q=Lewis+Bernstein+Namier+In+the+Margin+of+History%E2%80%8E In the Margin of History, p. 44] by [[Lewis Bernstein Namier]]</ref>