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To be honest, I can see only possibility in Germany keeping Gdańsk and League of Nations-administrated railway and road connection to East Prussia when it comes to territorial changes.

Poland did well in time when power was based on agriculture, but in industrial age it needed coal, iron, and other resources it lacked. Fortunetely those were located on areas-where as you yourself noted Polish majority was located.
The German government utilized a variety of devices to hamper the growth of Polish economic power. These included regulations preventing Poles from trading in coal, grain, and fodder, or subdividing farmland obtained through inheritance. Local officials tried to prevent graduates from Polish schools from entering skilled trade apprentice programs, denied Polish professionals the licenses required to work in their fields, organized boycotts of Polish establishments, and pressured Poles to cancel their memberships in Polish cooperatives.
nothing really bad eh ? As long as Poles are not Europeans...
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Partitions of Poland show otherwise, don't they ?Poland has surived fine for centuries without Silesia.
Poland did well in time when power was based on agriculture, but in industrial age it needed coal, iron, and other resources it lacked. Fortunetely those were located on areas-where as you yourself noted Polish majority was located.
German ideas on their supremacy in Central and Eastern Europe envisioned using ethnic conflicts to rule it.German leadership helps defuse their ethnic conflicts
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...g=content;col1There was nothing really bad for Europe from a Weimar Germany peaceful poltical-economic hegemony on Central and Eastern Europe. Economically, socially, and culturally was a pinnacle of European development.
The German government utilized a variety of devices to hamper the growth of Polish economic power. These included regulations preventing Poles from trading in coal, grain, and fodder, or subdividing farmland obtained through inheritance. Local officials tried to prevent graduates from Polish schools from entering skilled trade apprentice programs, denied Polish professionals the licenses required to work in their fields, organized boycotts of Polish establishments, and pressured Poles to cancel their memberships in Polish cooperatives.
nothing really bad eh ? As long as Poles are not Europeans...
Poland didn't demand German Upper Silesia-there were no demands there as you can see on the map. But you are also wrong about industrial center and resources. Polish Upper Silesia contained around 60% of Polish industry.has (and/or is going to have soon) plenty of industrial and resource centers in the Lodz, Radom-Lublin, and Krakow-Tarnow areas that ensure its welfare without need of German Upper Silesia.
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