WI: German Posen-West Prussia, Polish Odessa

I found this interesting map on google images. It shows an interwar Poland (I think) in which Germany has retained Posen, West Prussia and Upper Silesia but Poland gets Black Sea Ocean Access via Odessa.

What if something akin to this was OTL? Interwar Germany retains its eastern provinces but Poland is recompensed with a Black Sea Coast via a corridor between the Dniester and Southern Bug.

I'm not sure what sort of POD would be necessary for this. Perhaps the Soviets win the Battle of Warsaw and the Entente allows Germany to remilitarize, reclaim its eastern lands, and defend Poland? When the front stabilizes, the boundaries those below.

I'm choosing to more or less ignore much of the rest of the map (Hungarian North Transylvania, Russia instead of USSR, etc).





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The Germans tried to get the Corridor under Hitler by offering the Poles acces to another sea if they would join them against the Soviet Union. For obvious reason that became never the reality, as Polish infrastructure in roads and railways would make such a territorial switch nothing more then a very bad deal (not even mentioning the lack of Poles in these Bessarabian area that would mean even more foreigners and minorities opposing the Polish Central Government besides White Ruthenian/ Russians, Ukrainians, Lithuanians and Germans like OTL.
 
Could such an arrangement have resulted from the following sequence of events?

1. Upon the outbreak of war in 1914, the German Army concentrates the lion's share of its mobile forces (five of eight field armies) in East Prussia and Silesia, while assuming a defensive posture along the border with France.

2. While German and Austro-Hungarian forces win a quick victory against Russia, the French attempt to invade Germany fails. In the meantime, the British Empire mobilizes, but refrains from deploying its land forces, thereby giving it a great deal of influence in the peace conference.

3. In the course of the peace-conference, British representatives propose the creation of a pair of buffer states that will serve to separate Russia (on the one hand) from Germany and Austria-Hungary (on the other.) One of these, to be ruled by a monarch provided by a German royal family, would encompass Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The other, to be ruled by monarch provided by Austria-Hungary, would be made up of Poland, White Russia, and Ukraine.
 
Define quick victory against Russia, the Russians had mobilized faster then originally thouhgt and it took many battles and fights to break them down to the point that they were defeated by internal means as a result. A Germany just defending the western border for this 2-3 years without gaining much in France itself while French troops try to invade the German Empire might not be very politically popular, especially not when taking down Russia would take nearly as long as OTL, at minimun a few years. All while a knowingly much more modern army in the west (the center of Gemrany's main ressources and Industries as a Empire) is invading German territory like Russia OTL in the East. Not so sure if that would have worked out very well on the long run (at least not for a quick victory) letting Britain and the United States stay out of the war however might have done the trick, but for doing so Germans would have to beat France and Russia too, meaning either going trought Switzerland or the heavily defendet French border region and we know how well that turned out in Verdun.
 
Ribbentrop told Beck in 1939 that the Poles shouldn't be so stubborn about the Corridor because "the Black Sea is also a sea." https://books.google.com/books?id=gPnjXC1lEJ8C&pg=PA45 But it is very unlikely that the Poles will accept this offer and even less likely that the Germans if victorious will keep any promises they had made to induce the Poles to join them in the Great Anti-Bolshevik Crusade. Hitler wanted Ukraine for German, not Polish, colonization.
 
I could see a non-Nazi German nationalist regime attempting to establish those borders for Poland in an alternate World War II. Even the right Central Powers victory could do this or something similar.
 
Was Odessa ever part of Poland? I know that it belonged to Lithuania in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries but AIUI Lithuania in those days was only in a personal union with Poland.
 
Poland does slightly better against the Soviets in 1920 achieving said gains thus not feeling as threatened by Hitler's request for a railroad line under German sovereignty connecting East Prussia to Germany.
 
Poland does slightly better against the Soviets in 1920 achieving said gains thus not feeling as threatened by Hitler's request for a railroad line under German sovereignty connecting East Prussia to Germany.

... A rail line to East Prussia in Sovereign German Territory? Literally any German Government would tell Poland to fuck off and mind its own business in that event.
 
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