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Let's say that as extra insurance against German resurgence and domination of Central Europe, Germany east of the Oder-Neisse Line (Pomerania and Silesia) were demilitarized on the same terms as the Rhineland.

This is *not* German cession of those eastern areas to Poland in the political or demographic sense, there are no authorized population transfers.

The motive is outlined above, to keep the new states relatively protected from Germany and able to concentrate on defending against the Bolsheviks.

The occasion to issue the demand is either a) at the armistice, or b) as part of the Versailles Treaty.

If this happened, obviously this is conducive to Polish success in border disputes. Would the border be the same as OTL's Versailles border? Would the Poles annex all of Danzig and/or the Upper Silesian plebiscite zone? Or would the Poles annex even more of Pomerania and Silesia, despite their German populations, including possibly up to the Oder-Neisse demilitarization line?

Or would such an Entente demand simply blow up the armistice agreement or peace treaty?

If it did cause the Germans to reject/walk, could the Germans make their rejection stick, or would they be crushed and forced to accept the terms discussed, or worse ones, after a short bout of renewed fighting?

If the Germans rejected/walked out over the eastern terms and made it explicit that was their reason, would the French be able to resume their advance into Germany, or be faced with severe troop mutinies or strikes that could force them to soften their demands?
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