abstract:West Prussia (; ) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773–1824 and 1878–1919/20 which was created out of the earlier Polish fiefdom of Royal Prussia. In February 1920, Germany (after it had been defeated in 1918) handed over West Prussia's central parts to become the so-called Polish Corridor (i.
The earliestcompulsoryeducationinthe West began in the late17thcentury and early18th century in the German states of Gotha, Calemberg and, particularly, Prussia.