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West Prussia
The
Province of West Prussia
(; ; ) was a
province
of the
Kingdom of Prussia
from 1773–1824 and from 1878–1919/20, within the
German Reich
, which was created out of the earlier
Polish
province of
Royal Prussia
. In February 1920, Germany (after it had been defeated in 1918) handed over West Prussia's mainly German populated central parts to become the so-called
Polish Corridor
(i.e.
Pomeranian Voivodeship
) and the
Free City of Danzig
, while the parts remaining with the German
Weimar Republic
became the new
Posen-West Prussia
or were joined to the
Province of East Prussia
as
Regierungsbezirk West Prussia
. The territory was included within
Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia
from 1939–45, after which it became part of
Poland
.
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