[elcid1970]

Kaliningrad used to be known as Koenigsberg.

Gdansk is the former Danzig.

Is this what was once known as the Polish Corridor?

[Fiji Hill]

Is this what was once known as the Polish Corridor?

The Polish Corridor ran through West Prussia, well to the west, and included the port city of Gdynia, or Gotenhafen. Königsberg, in Esst Prussia, lay in a German enclave that included East Prussia and part of West Prussia. Danzig was a free city that bordered on the Polish Corridor and German West Prussia.

[Verginius Rufus]

Koenigsberg was Immanuel Kant's home town. Although the name of the city is German, the king honored was a Slav, Ottokar (or Otakar) II of Bohemia (1253-1278), a candidate for the crown of the Holy Roman Empire, who lost out to Rudolf von Habsburg (the first Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor) in 1273.

Actually, Ottokar was only part-Slav. He was part-German (related to the Hohenstaufens--Philip of Swabia was his maternal grandfather). He was also a great-grandson of the Byzantine Emperor Isaac II.