So I read somewhere that Germany lost 12 cities as part of the Versailles Treaty, but on the map only three of them seem to be clear and obvious: Danzig, Konigsberg, and Breslau. Can anyone help me scout out the other nine? They must be smaller towns or something no so prominent.
You mixed it up. Versailles treaty was WWI event and you are mentioning cities lost in after WWII. I’d really like to see source, else I can only speculate that it were Alsace Lorraine cities here in mind.
What do you define as a “city”? Danzig alone was surrounded by hundreds of towns that were surrendered as well, and that’s the case for the other two cities as well. What was the source for the 12 figure? Context is probably the only way we could figure out what was meant by “city”.
theres nothing that names all 12 cities but heres something from answers.com
Germany ceded the towns of Eupen and Malmedy to Belgium, Alsace-Lorraine to France, had to give up parts of Westprussia and Posen as well as East Prussia to the newly created country of Poland and in the case of East Prussia, Lithuania. It also had to give back the northern part of Schleswig-Holstein to Denmark.
i think according to a map i found some of the lost towns were occupied
heres various maps :12 cities lost by germany in versailles treaty - Bing
Try the second one on the page
Exactly what I came in to say.
I mean Strasbourg, Metz and Mulhouse( Mülhausen )are obvious examples. So is Posen( Poznań ). But what about Soldau? Too small or does it count? Saarbrücken was technically lost until 1935, until restored by plebiscite - does it count?