From: Bill Rutkowski Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2010 7:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Subject: Re: [POLAND] Poland-Germany 1939 Demarcation Line I'm not 100% sure but I believe the German-Russian demarcation line was the same line that had been in effect from 1792 until 1918 when Poland had a rebirth as a nation. The Germans took the former Prussian and Austrian territories and the Russian took their former territory. If I am right than any map between 1792 - 1918 will give the demarcation line that went into effect September 17, 1939 Bill Rutkowski

Hi Bill: In my first response on this thread, I should have corrected the original subject i.e. there was an internationally-recognized border between Poland and Germany from 1923 to 1939 and between Poland and Soviet Russia as a result of the Soviet-Polish Was and eventual ratification by the League of Nations in 1923. This thread should be entitled Nazi-Soviet demarcation line as it resulted from the Nazi-Soviet Pact of August 22/23, 1939 and again erased Poland as a country after the joint September 1939 campaign by Germany and the Soviet Union against Poland in September 1939. The former Eastern Galicia (all of Galicia, or Austrian Poland, had been part Poland to this time) fell under Soviet control so your suggestion here is not correct. Btw, there was great debate about Poland's borders in the various treaties that ended the First World War. The British (not really friendly to Poland at this particular time) argued for a Curzon Line as the boundary of newly created Eastern Poland, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curzon_Line You can see on this "line" had 2 versions, one that included Lwow in Poland and one that did not. It was proposed by the British diplomat Lord Curzon in 1919-20 but Polish victory in the Polish Soviet War of 1919-20 negated it. Nonetheless, this Curzon line approximates a very close facsimile to the Nazi-Soviet demarcation line of 1939 and I am sure was used by both parties to justify their ill-gotten gains. Just to reiterate, this thread is better described as Nazi-Soviet demarcation line of Poland. Lindy Kasperski www.lindykasperski.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Rutkowski Sent: November-23-10 3:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [POLAND] Fw: Subject: Re: Poland-Germany 1939 Demarcation Line From: Bill Rutkowski Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2010 7:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Subject: Re: [POLAND] Poland-Germany 1939 Demarcation Line I'm not 100% sure but I believe the German-Russian demarcation line was the same line that had been in effect from 1792 until 1918 when Poland had a rebirth as a nation. The Germans took the former Prussian and Austrian territories and the Russian took their former territory. If I am right than any map between 1792 - 1918 will give the demarcation line that went into effect September 17, 1939 Bill Rutkowski ********************************* Need to contact the list manager? Write to Marie at [email protected] ---------------------------------- Discussion of Polish food, culture, and customs are welcome on the list as long as the discussion stays pertinent to the topic of this list: researching our Polish roots. ---------------------------------- Browse the list's archives here: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=poland-roots Search the list's archives here: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?aop=1 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message