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It's important to noticed that this map shows NOT nations but the area where people knew german language. You need to know that especially in north Poland, lived people who were bi-lingual (they knew Polish and german. It was caused of Poland parti-tion in XVIIIth century and captivity under Prussian kingdom till 1918 Second Polish Republic). Also I'm not convinced of some of the noumbers shown in the note. Especially about (Danzig) Gdańsk and retired west Prussia (Danziger surrounding countryside). Before World War II in Free City of Gdańsk lived sth about 400 000 people and about 40 - 50 000 were Pole (we need notice that some people who identified as germans were germanized after Partitions of Poland, I didn't count them as Polish citizens). When in december 1939 Albert Forster made population census over 70 % of people said that polish is their mother-thongue, and over 100 000 (from 180 000) Kashubian who declared kashbian as their mother thongue said that they were Pole (rest from them didn't identified with Poland and Germans).