Subject: Re: Czech Leased Territory in German then Polish Stettin
Date: Oct 13, 2006 @ 05:42
Author: aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@...> wrote:
>
> I just came in to report on a subject previously addressed here that
> was left un-ended. Those of you who remember Wolfgang Schaub might be
> happy to hear he never let loose on the topic and secured and
> translated the polish text of the treaty between CZ and PL on the
> harbor lease. It lasted only about 12 years from 1947, after which
> the Czechs abandoned it. The area was comprised of a particular dock
> and adjacent land in the duty free portion of the harbor, and the
> treaty contained provisions allowing the Czechs to further occupy a
> separate exclave a short distance from the main portion. The treaty
> actually states that the area would be called (from Polish to German
> to half English), Czechoslavakian "Gebiet"(a word discused here
> earlier, too) in the Customs Excluded Territory of Stettin Harbor (or
> similar).
>
> A news article from the time, which he also found and translated,
> reveals that Czechoslovakia never was able to secure the rights in
> Stettin from the Germans that were accorded to it in the Versailles
> Treaty after World War I.
>
> Regards to all
>
> Len Nadybal
>