Ostflucht. In 1921 the proportion of Germans in Pomerania (where the Corridor was located) was 18.8% (175,771). Over the next decade, the German population decreased by another 70,000 to a share of 9.6%. There was also a Jewish minority. in 1905, Kashubians numbered about 72,500. After the occupation by Nazi Germany, a census was made by the German authorities in December 1939. 71% of people declared themselves as Poles, 188,000 people declared Kashubian as their language, 100,000 of those declared themselves Polish. After World War II At the 1945 Potsdam Conference following the German defeat in World War II, Poland's borders were reorganized at the insistence of the Soviet Union, which occupied the entire area. Territories east of the Oder-Neisse line, including Danzig, were put under Polish administration. The Potsdam Conference did not debate about the future of the territories that were part of western Poland before the war, including the corridor. It automatically became part of the reborn state in 1945. Many German residents were executed, others were expelled to the Soviet occupation zone, which later became East Germany. The corridor in literature In The Shape of Things to Come'', published in 1933, H. G. Wells correctly predicted that the corridor would be the starting point of a future Second World War. He depicted the war as beginning in January 1940 and would involve heavy aerial bombing of civilians, but that it would result in a 10-year trench warfare-esque stalemate between Poland and Germany eventually leading to a worldwide societal collapse in the 1950's. See also Similar corridors Other land corridors linking a country either to the sea or to a remote part of the country are: Czech Corridor (concept) Eilat Corridor (Israel) Jerusalem Corridor (Israel) Antofagasta or Atacama corridor (Bolivia) Persian Corridor (Iran 1941–1946) Lachin corridor (Armenia/Azerbaijan) Siliguri Corridor (India) Teen Bigha Corridor (Bangladesh) Wakhan Corridor (Afghanistan, this corridor was not created to link, but to separate areas) Bosnian Corridor Brčko corridor (Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina) Kaliningrad Post Soviet-Union rail and road links through Lithuania and Belarus to Russia proper from the now-detached Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. Caprivi Strip (Namibia, connecting the then German South West Africa to the Zambezi River) References Aftermath of World War I in Germany History of Pomerania Second Polish Republic Treaty of Versailles Germany–Poland relations Aftermath of World War I in Poland Geopolitical corridors 1920 establishments in Poland