Territorial changes in the an important area centring round Polar are own by diagonal shading. Across the south it indicates where Austria has become a German province and Czechoslovakia has been split into bits; Bohemia and Moravia, German protectorates, and Slovakia, autonomous under Germany’s protection; Ruthenia and a slice of Slovakia, occupied by Hungary; and the Teschen region, now a part of Poland. To the north is another recent trouble spot, Memel, which Lithuania ceded to Germany in March, 1939. Further west are Danzig and Pomorze. “the Polish Corridor,” with the port of Gdynia, Poland’s window on the Baltic. At the left is Germany, at the right the Soviet Ukraine.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20039, 11 September 1939, Page 9
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110Territorial changes in the an important area centring round Polar are own by diagonal shading. Across the south it indicates where Austria has become a German province and Czechoslovakia has been split into bits; Bohemia and Moravia, German protectorates, and Slovakia, autonomous under Germany’s protection; Ruthenia and a slice of Slovakia, occupied by Hungary; and the Teschen region, now a part of Poland. To the north is another recent trouble spot, Memel, which Lithuania ceded to Germany in March, 1939. Further west are Danzig and Pomorze. “the Polish Corridor,” with the port of Gdynia, Poland’s window on the Baltic. At the left is Germany, at the right the Soviet Ukraine. Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20039, 11 September 1939, Page 9
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