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  Free City of Danzig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It consisted of the city of Danzig (Gdansk) with all its rural possessions in the mouth of Vistula river and the Hel peninsula.
After the Congress of Vienna (1815), Danzig was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia and made the capital of a district and the province of West Prussia.
At the Potsdam Conference (1945) the territory of the Free City was awarded to Poland and its German inhabitants expelled.
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 Danzig-Wrzeszcz. Who is Danzig-Wrzeszcz? What is Danzig-Wrzeszcz? Where is Danzig-Wrzeszcz? Definition of ...
Some of the continuing struggle of the independent Hanse city of Danzig to remain independend despite the 1515 Maximilian I deal have been recorded in the article on Danzig councilman Albrecht IV Giese, a member of a long established Danzig Patrician family.
Danzig was surrounded by the Prussian territories until 1793, when it was incorporated into the Prussian kingdom as part of the province of West Prussia, reverting under Napoleon Bonaparte to direct Prussian rule after a second brief period (1807 – 14) as a free city.
The feeling of grief felt by the citizens of Danzig when their independent city was incorporated into the state of Prussia was reflected in the pessimistic philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer.
www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Danzig-Wrzeszcz   (3953 words)

  
 Danzig. Who is Danzig? What is Danzig? Where is Danzig? Definition of Danzig. Meaning of Danzig.
Before Gdansk was established, the vicinity was inhabited by populations belonging to the various archealogical cultures of the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age.
From the first partition of Poland, the city lost its function as the principal port for Polish exports via the Baltic, and ceased to be the region's largest port as it experienced a prolonged economic and demographic slump.
In October 1939, Danzig, together with the rest of the Polish Pomerania to the south and west, became the German Reichsgau (administrative district) of Danzig-West Prussia (Danzig-Westpreussen).
www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Danzig   (3979 words)

  
 Free City of Danzig - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The Free City of Danzig (French: Ville Libre de Dantzig) was a semi-independent state established by Napoleon during the Napoleonic Wars in years 1807 – 1813 / 1815.
The Free City of Danzig (German: Freie Stadt Danzig ; Polish: Wolne Miasto Gdańsk) was a separate state established in 1919, a territory that included the city of Danzig plus the surrounding territory, which was previously (from 1815) a part of Prussia (itself since 1871 a part of the German Empire).
At the Potsdam Conference (1945) the territory of the Free City was awarded to Poland.
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 Ad Ad-Dammâm Ad-Dar'iyah Ad-Dariyah Ad-Dawhah Ad-Dawr Ad-Dir'iyah Ad-Diriyah Ad-hoc Ad-hoc network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Administration of Danzig-West Prussia 1939-1945 - In the was annexed to the....
Administration of Gdansk since April 1945 - The contemporary Gdansk is the capital of the Pomeranian...
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 Wilhelm Frick
In connection with his duties at the center of all internal and domestic administration, he became the Prussian Minister of the Interior, Reich Director of Elections, General Plenipotentiary for the Administration of the Reich, and a member of the Reich Defense Council, the Ministerial Council or Defense of the Reich, and the "Three Man College".
Before the date of the Austrian aggression Frick was concerned only with domestic administration within the Reich.
He was made responsible for war administration, except the military and economic, in the event of Hitler's proclaiming a state of defense.
www.adolfhitler.ws /lib/nsdap/Frick.html   (1928 words)

  
 A History of World War Two, Roosevelt, Franklin D.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
In a speech in April 1932 he declared that the country faced a crisis more grave than in World War I. He said the country must build from the bottom up, not from the top down.
Before the Commonwealth Club of California he discussed social welfare and relations between government and business.
In his 1945 message to Congress he said that the year just beginning "can be the greatest year of achievement in human history." It could see total victory over the Axis.
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 Lecture 11: Hitler and World War Two
Poland refused to hand over Danzig since it was vital to their economy.
Mussolini was dismissed, and eventually shot and hung by his ankles in April 1945.
On April 30, 1945, Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide and one week later, May 7, a demoralized and near destroyed Germany surrendered unconditionally.
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 Gdansk - explanation-Guide.info - for information, definition, meaning, reference - free encyclopedia, glossary of terms
This permitted the foundation of the Danzig municipality in 1343 and a flourishing development of grains exports from Poland via the Vistula river trading routes.
Some Danzig citizens fought for Danzig independence, but they had to accept that the city became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1793 and, again in 1815, after a short period as a Free City (1806-1815) under Napoleon.
In contrast to the independent period, under the Prussian administration Danzig became an relatively unimportant city dominated by the military garrison and the administration officials.
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 Daily Republican News in Plain Clothes - Recent Stories 42
The Clinton administration has downplayed the impact of Chinese nuclear spying and has attempted to depict it as a problem he inherited from the Reagan and Bush administrations.
The Bush Administration, which had adopted a hands-off policy on the killings in Croatia and Bosnia, warned Milosevic on Dec. 29, 1992, that the United States was prepared to take unilateral military action if the Serbs sparked a conflict in Kosovo.
It was circulated as Clinton was preparing for his pivotal appearance before the grand jury investigating the Lewinsky affair and the White House was planning the cruise missile attack against Sudan and the Afghan bases of Osama bin Laden, the Saudi exile suspected of directing the attacks.
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 Equipo Nizkor - Judgment of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal.
On 12th May, 1941, five weeks before the invasion of the Soviet Union the OKW urged upon Hitler a directive of the OKH that political commissars be liquidated by the Army.
As late as April, 1945, when he admits he knew the struggle was hopeless, Doenitz as its Commander-in-Chief urged the Navy to continue its fight.
As Reichs Governor he was head of the municipal administration of the city of Vienna, and, under the supervision of the Minister of the Interior in charge of the governmental administration of the Reich in Vienna.
www.derechos.org /nizkor/nuremberg/judgment/cap9.html   (20219 words)

  
 Uranus (planet)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The discovery was serendipitous; they planned to use the occultation of a star by Uranus to study the planet's atmosphere, but when they analysed their observations they found that the star had disappeared briefly from view five times both before and after it disappeared behind the planet.
They concluded that there must be a ring system around the planet; it was directly detected when the Voyager 2 space probe passed Uranus in 1986.
Launched in 1977, Voyager made its closest approach to Uranus on January 24, 1986 before continuing on its journey to Neptune.
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 Gdansk Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Media:Gdansk.oggGdańsk (German languageGerman: Danzig) is the 6th largest city in Poland, its principal seaport, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodship.
In contrast to the Polish period, under the Prussian administration Gdansk became an relatively unimportant city dominated by the military garrison and the administration officials.
Gdańsk was liberated by the Polish and Soviet forces on March 30, 1945 after a fierce battle with the defending Germans.
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 The Avalon Project : Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Vol. 22 - Tuesday, 1 October 1946
On 12 May 1941, five weeks before the invasion of the Soviet Union, the OKW urged upon Hitler a directive of the OKH that political commissars be liquidated by the Army.
He was informed by Hitler, on 2 April 1941, of the coming attack against the Soviet Union, and he agreed to help in the capacity of a "Political Adviser." On 20 April 1941 he was appointed Commissioner for the Central Control of Questions Connected with the East European Region.
Schacht, by April 1936, began to lose his influence as the central figure in the German rearmament effort when Goering was appointed co-ordinator for raw materials and foreign exchange.
www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/imt/proc/10-01-46.htm   (19968 words)

  
 Axis History Forum :: View topic - soviet army in Germany in Soviet documents
German civilians and prisoners of war continued to be murdered as before, often upon the inducement of superior officers, usually the "battalion and regimental commanders involved", although a few prisoners of war testified that there were units in "which such crimes were not tolerated".
By the middle of April, with the Russians deep inside Austria and Czechoslovakia and the Western Allies sweeping across Western and Southern Germany, and Zhukov, Konev and Rokossovsky holding the Oder Line, the time was ripe for the final attack on Berlin.
On April 14, Ehrenburg’s hate propaganda was stopped by a strong attack on him in Pravda by G.F. Alexandrov, the principal ideologist of the Central Committee.
forum.axishistory.com /viewtopic.php?t=10551   (6427 words)

  
 9/11 - the American Reichstag Fire and the Fourth Reich
Just days before the crucial election of March 5th, a fire destroys the main chamber of the Reichstag in Berlin; the Nazis immediately declare that this is the work of the Communists.
The Reagan and Bush administrations instituted the principles of NSC 68 and accomplished the aims of liberation theory.
AP reports: "The Bush administration and the insurance industry told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that a California law to help Holocaust survivors with decades-old insurance claims intrudes on U.S. foreign policy and should be struck down...
www.oilempire.us /reichstag-fire.html   (10142 words)

  
 Witness to History
The French long before the outbreak of war were planning the emigration of 10,000 Jews.
Following the disappearance of the political parties, which fought only for their own ends and kept the nation divided, great and common vital problems were presented to the people so that they might understand which ideals were worth striving for and for which sacrifices would have to be made.
The NSDAP became (April 8th, 1933) in effect a public corporation, the constitution of which removed all suspicion of a personal dictatorship by Adolf Hitler.
www.biblebelievers.org.au /witness1.htm   (16733 words)

  
 Freedom Now
Since an administrative determination of death had been placed in each missing man’s records, as far as the United States government and the laws of this country were concerned, these men were legally dead.
On 22 May 1945, an Allied-Soviet meeting was held in Halle, Germany to discuss the most expeditious overland delivery of Allied and Soviet ex-prisoners of war and displaced persons liberated by the Allied Expeditionary Force and the Red Army.
Months before the end of the war, the Western Allies and Soviets met at the Yalta Conference on 11 February 1945 to establish a mechanism to expedite the movement of the hundreds of thousands prisoners of war and displaced persons expected at the conclusion of hostilities.
www.taskforceomegainc.org /freedom.htm   (13309 words)

  
 Deutsche Reichsbahn - The German State Railway in WWII
At the conclusion of the Polish Campaign, all of the battle damaged Polish rail lines had to be repaired before the DR could gain unimpeded access to the entire Polish railway network in the new General-Gouvernment (GG).
This was a separate entity from the DR and it was responsible for the administration of the railways in the GG (Poland).
FBD 4 was hastily erected in June of 1941 in Danzig as a replacement for FBD 1.
www.feldgrau.com /dreichsbahn.html   (7012 words)

  
 Flag of Madagascar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The flag of Madagascar was adopted on October 14 1958 two years before independence as Madagascar for a referendum on its status in French community.
The colors of the flag represent Madagascar's yearning for independence and traditional classes.
While it takes up less than a third of the time on this generously filled CD, Dvorak's "American Flag" is more than worth the price of admission--especially in so delicious a reading as that afforded by Michael Tilson Thomas and company.
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 The Map Room Journal - A Search for the Lost Cities of the German Reich
It was the 1945 German command post, set underground, during the Soviet assault on Konigsberg.
The various rooms of the museum, originally bunkers at the command post, trace the assault with pictures diagrams and very eerie small scale reproductions of parts of the city center as they were during the fighting.
Memel, like Danzig, was severed from the German Reich at the end of World War I and made a "free city" under French administration.
www.maproom.com /journals/jhuntoon.htm   (1653 words)

  
 Free City of Danzig - TheBestLinks.com - Customs union, German language, Gdansk, German Empire, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Free City of Danzig - TheBestLinks.com - Customs union, German language, Gdansk, German Empire,...
Free City of Danzig, Customs union, German language, Gdansk, German Empire...
de:Freie Stadt Danzig fr:Ville Libre de Dantzig it:Libera Città di Danzica pl:Wolne Miasto Gdańsk
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 Red Brigades   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The following year in April, the Red Brigades announced that they had set up a Communist Combatant Party to "guide the working class." Terrorist activities, especially against carabinieri and magistrates, increased considerably to pressure juries to dismiss cases against the imprisoned leaders of the organization.
On April 16 1988 BR-PCC killed Italian senator Roberto Ruffilli.
After that the group activities all but ended after massive arrests of its leadership.
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 AskPhil -- Stamp Collecting starts here.
Cantonal Stamps: Switzerland Canton issues of Zurich (1843), Geneva (1843), and Basel (1845), before the release of Swiss Confederation issues in 1845.
Capacua: Bolivia, bogus stamp by Moens of Belgium, for a mythical state with the capital of Santa Teresa as an April Fool’s prank, 1883.
Caxas: (Sp.) regional postal administrations established by Spain in Havana, Mexico City, Guatemala City, Buenos Aires and Lima for its colonies, 1764.
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 Adolph/Adolf Hitler Schicklgruber - his psychology and development
Hitler’s administration has been credited with applying ‘Keynesian’-type solutions [19] to the chaos existing in Germany prior to his being raised to Chancellor [19a] ; and this is probably a reasonable assessment.
We wage war against the corrupt parliamentary administration whereby men are appointed to posts by favour of the party without regard to character and fitness.
In Britain before the invention of the bicycle, it was reckoned that the average couple lived about 3 miles apart.
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 Encyclopedia: Freie Stadt Danzig   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Updated 172 days 11 hours 39 minutes ago.
The Free City of Danzig (French: Ville Libre de Dantzig) was a semi-independent state established by Napoleon during the Napoleonic Wars in years 9 September 1807 – 22 January 1813 / 1815.
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www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Freie-Stadt-Danzig   (454 words)

  
 FRANK'S COMPULSIVE GUIDE TO POSTAL ADDRESSES
Before the end of the Second World War, parts of what are now the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, and other countries were German.
IRELAND is an independent country, most recently ruled by England (and before that, like much of England itself, by Vikings, but unlike England, never by the Romans or French), whose capital is Dublin.
County names can be included, as in the country of Ireland (next section), in which case the word "County" (abbreviated "Co.") appears before the county name in the address.
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 Jürgen Graf: National Socialist Concentration Camps: Legend and Reality   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The main reason for the mass deaths in 1945, however, was not starvation, but epidemics, caused by the evacuation of the eastern camps, which in turn spread epidemic diseases to the overcrowded western concentration camps and could not be brought under control as a result of wartime conditions.
The Allied propagandists of 1945 were naturally uninterested in such facts, and the media of the western world are equally uninterested in these same facts today.
This conviction was strengthened by the fact that before leaving the camp, the selected inmates went through the showers and delousing, i.e., through Barracks 41 and 42 where delousing gas chambers were known to exist.
www.vho.org /GB/Books/dth/fndGraf.html   (12740 words)

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