books.google.co.uk - The historical and geographical significance of the Baltic Sea as a Russian gateway to the West has sometimes overshadowed its reciprocal significance as a German window on the East, but in the period after the First World War the Baltic was to become of critical importance to a German state then shorn...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Baltic_States_and_Weimar_Ostpolitik.html?id=TYJbYgNcalgC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Baltic States and Weimar Ostpolitik
