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	Encyclopedia: Free City of Danzig (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Free City of Danzig (French: Ville Libre de Dantzig), sometimes referred to as the Republic of Danzig was a semi-independent state established by Napoleon during the Napoleonic Wars in years 9 September 1807â“ 22 January 1813/1815.
		It consisted of the city of Danzig (GdaÅsk) with all its rural possessions in the mouth of Vistula river and the Hel peninsula.
		Ninety percent of the city was reduced to ruins in the war and thereafter, and it is estimated that 40 percent of the pre-war population was killed.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Free-City-of-Danzig (2294 words)

	Wikipedia: Free City of Danzig
		The Free City of Danzig (Freie Stadt Danzig) was a territory that included the city then called Danzig and the surrounding Danziger Land, which was a part of the German Empire (Deutsches Reich).
		With the Treaty of Versailles it was separated from Germany, created a separate state under the League of Nations and Westerplatte, the city's harbor, was given to Poland.
		All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/f/fr/free_city_of_danzig.html (114 words)

	Wikinfo \| Gdansk
		Gdańsk is the 6th largest city in Poland, its principal seaport, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodship.
		Gdańsk is, with a population of 460,000 (2002), the largest city in the historical province of Eastern Pomerania.
		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.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Gdansk (3752 words)

	Free State of Danzig (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The "Neutrality" of the Free City of Danzig
		Danzig was not a German Province since 1919 and was not a part of the German Reich as of December 31, 1937, the date in question.
		Again the case of the Free City of Danzig for Restitution of the legal State Territory failed, it was rebuffed, was stopped at the doors of the International Court of Justice, an Organ of the UN.
	www.net2000.com.au /customers/danzig/dan.html (6233 words)

	MSN Encarta - Archive Article - 1939: Danzig
		On the night of May 20 a resident of the Free City's territory was killed in a shooting affray involving Polish customs examiners, under circumstances which are in dispute.
		Throughout July and August the pace of preparation for absorption of the Free City was accelerated in a fashion closely resembling Nazi activities during the last days of Austria and the Czech Sudetenland.
		On the morning of Sept. 1, as German troops crossed the Polish border, Herr Förster proclaimed the annexation of the City to the Reich.
	encarta.msn.com /sidebar_461501163/1939_Danzig.html (1256 words)

	Free State of Danzig (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The legal position therefore of the Free City of Danzig under international law, remains the same as before, before the beginning of WW II, notwithstanding the fact that the German Third Reich, under Hitler, did illegally annex the territory of the Free City of Danzig on September 1, 1939.
		On August 20, 1920, the Danzig Senate by majority vote declared the Free City of Danzig, a "neutral State", this was practically forced upon the Free City of Danzig because of the ongoing war between Poland and Soviet Russia.
		The Government-in-Exile of the Free City of Danzig also wishes to apply for: the Free City of Danzig (as ought to) be accepted as a regular Member of the UNO, and would further like to ask the kind Office of your Excellency to initiate the necessary proceedings, accordingly.
	www.net2000.com.au /customers/danzig/unmembership.html (1192 words)

	Free City of Danzig (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It consisted of the city of (Gdansk) with all its rural possessions in 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 and the province of West Prussia.
		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 Danzig plus the surrounding territory which was (from 1815) a part of Prussia (itself since 1871 a part of the German Empire).
	www.freeglossary.com /Freie_Stadt_Danzig (583 words)

	ipedia.com: Free City of Danzig Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Free City of Danzig was a semi-independent state established by Napoleon during the Napoleonic Wars in years 1807 - 1813 / 1815.
		It consisted of the city of Danzig with all its rural possessions i...
		The Free City of Danzig was a semi-independent state established by Napoleon during the Napoleonic Wars in years 1807-1813/1815.
	www.ipedia.com /free_city_of_danzig.html (451 words)

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		With the Treaty of Versailles, the Hanseatic city was separated from the German Empire as an independent city on 10 January 1920.
		The city was rebuilt in the 1950s and 1960s to become a major port and industrial centre of the People's Republic of Poland, once again known as Gdańsk.
		Danzig had used Prussian stamps, Reichspost issues and when Danzig was given the status of Free city, the first issues were the Germania series overprinted Danzig, followed by stamps that gave the Free City of Danzig its own distinct identity.
	members.home.nl /bnieborg/danzig/danzig_intro.html (442 words)

	Danzig Jewry: A Short History
		Prussian Danzig was an attractive, provincial city, overwhelmingly German in population, language and culture, involved in the political concerns of the German state.
		Danzig was overwhelmingly German, and the local citizenry, including the Jewish community, had publicly stated their opposition to inclusion of Danzig in the Polish state.
		Danzig Jewry lives on in the community archives, which the community leaders decided to entrust to the Jewish community of Jerusalem.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/Danzig.html (5757 words)

	Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia (Danzig-Westpreussen) was a German administrative unit created in 1939 from Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) and Polish Pomerania.
		The Nazi governor, Albert Förster, was later sentenced to death and executed for crimes against humanity.
		However, most of Danzig's Jewish minority left the region in 1939, as Danzig was not then part of Germany.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Danzig-West_Prussia (168 words)

	Avalon Project : The French Yellow Book : No. 193 - M. LÉON NÖEL, French Ambassador in Warsaw, to M. Georges Bonnet, ...
		The COMMISSIONER-GENERAL of the Polish Republic, to the PRESIDENT of the Senate of the Free City of Danzig.
		I HAVE learned that the local authorities of the Danzig Customs on duty at the posts situated on the frontier which separates the Free City from East Prussia have addressed to the Polish Customs inspectors a communication which is without precedent in the history of Polish-Danzig relations.
		THE Senate of the Free City of Danzig has informed the Polish Diplomatic representative in Danzig, in its letter of July 29 of this year, that it has advised the Danzig Customs Administration that the "so-called" frontier guards shall no longer be treated as Polish Customs inspectors.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/wwii/yellow/ylbk193.htm (608 words)

	The Militarization of the Free City (May 15-June 30)
		184 144 M. DE LA TOURNELLE-Danzig, June 23 In Danzig the population is surprised by the repercussions abroad, provoked by Dr. Goebbels' speech in the Free City on June 17.
		From the point of view of communications, the importance to Poland of the Free City of Danzig is not confined to the use at present made of the harbour, or the fact that the mouth of the Vistula-the one important Polish river-is at Danzig.
		For the militarisation of the Free City to have its full value, the Germans would, it is true, have to establish permanent means of communication between the two banks of the Vistula so as to link up the eastern portion with East Prussia.
	www.ibiblio.org /pha/fyb/part_5a.html (11829 words)

	Gdansk, Poland - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		The city was formerly the administrative center of the free city of Danzig, an area controlled by the League of Nations.
		The historical origins of the city are obscure, but it is known that the town existed as early as 970.
		In 1793, with the partition of Poland, the city became a possession of Prussia.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /gdansk_poland.htm (682 words)

	Shofar FTP Archives: imt/tgmwc/tgmwc-06/tgmwc-06-55.03
		The rights of Poland in Danzig will not be violated.' Twice on this occasion, Hitler repeated with pathos: 'Danzig ist mit Polen verbunden (Danzig is bound to Poland).' Paragraph 8: The first hints of the changes in the status of Danzig were made by the defendant Ribbentrop on 25th October, 1938.
		Poland was to keep the Danzig railroads and to retain economic facilities, in return for her assent to the building of an ex-territorial `Autobahn' and a railroad through Pomerania.
		The basic State law of the Free City of Danzig of 1st September, 1939, concerning the reunion of Danzig with the German Reich.
	www.vex.net /~nizkor/ftp.cgi/ftp.py?imt/tgmwc/tgmwc-06/tgmwc-06-55.03 (1065 words)

	Danzig (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Danzig, largely an ethnically German city, became a "free city" under the protection of the League of Nations (the worldwide organization of states established by the treaty), but with special administrative ties to Poland.
		Hitler was determined to overturn the military and territorial provisions of the Versailles treaty and include ethnic Germans in the Reich.
		In preparation for war with Poland, in the spring of 1939 Hitler demanded the annexation of the Free City of Danzig to Germany and extraterritorial rail access for Germany across the "Polish Corridor," the Polish frontier to East Prussia.
	www.ushmm.org /wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005438 (358 words)

	Deutschland 2002 Berlin
		The beautiful old city had been reduced to ash and hundreds of thousands of refugees were being transported out of the city on whatever ships were around.
		Danzig, Germany (Gdansk, Poland since '45) was an important medieval Hanseatic League sea port city.
		After the 1920 Treaty of Versailles Danzig was a free city state with a population of over 85% ethnic Germans.
	www.crystalbay.net /germany/danzig.htm (822 words)

	Aggression Against Poland, Danzig, England and France
		This included the reunion of Danzig with the Reich, while Poland would be assured the retention of railway and economic facilities there.
		Danzig was raised simply as an excuse, a justification, not for the seizure of Danzig but for the invasion and seizure of the whole of Poland.
		This agreement should guarantee the existence of the Free City of Danzig so as to assure freedom of national and cultural life to its German majority, and also should guarantee all Polish rights.
	www.vex.net /~nizkor/hweb/imt/nca/nca-01/nca-01-09-aggression-08-05.html (1117 words)

	Danzig Historical Flags (Prussia, Germany) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There is some evidence, on the contrary, of a blue flag with two white crosses and a white flag with two red crosses (similar to the British system, as also adopted in Hamburg) used in the 18th century and, maybe, until 1823.
		The oldest of the series, from the mid-13th century, that of Hamburg, was followed among others by Danzig in the 14th century.
		The design is incorrect; the Arms reproduced are not those of Danzig but the form they had on the flags adopted between 1920 and 1939 by the free town.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/de-pr-dz.html (483 words)

	Danzig - Gdansk
		At the end of WW I the city and the surrounding lands were claimed by Poland.
		In 1939 the Free City of Danzig was annexed to the German Empire.
		LOCAL LEADERS OF THE NSDAP IN THE DANZIG AREA The NSDAP of the Danzig area was divided into nine Kreise, part of the Gau Danzig -Westpreussen.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Rotunda/2209/Danzig.html (1211 words)

	Gdansk, Poland, Pictures
		Gdansk (German Danzig), city in northern Poland, the administrative center of Gdansk Province, a seaport on the Gulf of Gdansk (formerly Danzig).
		Except for the industrial areas and the Langgarten, the modern section of Gdansk, the city has a medieval appearance and many narrow, winding streets and gabled houses with open-air balconies of carved stone.
		Commercially, Gdansk is one of the most important cities in Poland: It has not only port facilities and inland-water connections with the valley of the Wisla but also direct rail connections with Warsaw and other major points in the country and throughout Europe.
	www.greatestcities.com /Europe/Poland/Gdansk_Danzig_city.html (370 words)

	The Journal of History
		The conquered Danzig civilian population was regarded not only as "fair game," but also "Outlaws" in their own country, and therefore: "there for the taking without any ransom!" Was there to the pleasure and service of all and every Pole.
		In terms of population the Pole outnumbered the Danziger to the tune of 70 to 1.
		At the outbreak of the War, on September 1, 1939, the Free City of Danzig had a population of 408,000 people, was unarmed, was demilitarized, a neutral, independent State, under the protection of the Geneva League of Nations.
	truedemocracy.net /td-9/02.html (15326 words)

	Kissin: Danzig Trotskyists
		He was born in Danzig and studied largely at Königsberg University although, in the German manner, he also attended the universities of Breslau, Berlin and Freiburg.
		In the inter-war years he became a citizen of the Free City of Danzig, which was under the protection of the League of Nations.
		The semi-dictatorial methods of Brüning and his successors – elimination of parliament, restrictions on free speech, the gagging of the oppositional press, etc. – turned out to be the thin edge of the totalitarian wedge, which was now driven home.
	www.marxists.org /history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol3/no1/kisexp.html (5438 words)

	Danzig becomes a free city (October 1920) - Biografie Willy Brandt
		On 27 October 1920, the allies establish the „Free City of Danzig“ (today: Gdansk).
		The area of this sovereign free city, which includes the old towns of Zoppot, Tiegenhof, and Neuteich, has a total area of 759 square miles.
		The Polish government will guarantee free access to the Baltic Sea and a customs union with Danzig.
	www.willy-brandt.org /bwbs_biografie/index.php?l=en&p=wg&m=2&id=737 (96 words)

	German-Helmets.com
		Overall the city became a blend of both Polish and German citizens.
		In a covert effort to control Danzig the Schutzstaffel (SS) swelled the ranks of the Danzig Home Guard (Heimwehr) by shipping SS men to the city to form a paramilitary police force.
		SS-Totenkopfstandarte and from volunteers who were one-third natives of the 98% German Free City of Danzig.
	www.german-helmets.com /SS-HWD_MAIN.htm (374 words)

	How Wars Are MADE \| German White Book Documents of the German-Polish Crisis
		Reply of the President of the Senate of the Free City of Danzig to the Diplomatic Representative of the Republic of Poland, August 7, 1939
		When as Herr von Ribbentrop points out in his Danzig speech (October 24, 1939) chancellor Hitler in 1934 concluded a Friendship and Non-Aggression Pact with Marshal Pilsudski, it was clearly understood that the problem of Danzig and the Corridor must be solved sooner or later.
		The return of the Free City of Danzig to the Reich, without severance of its economic ties to the Polish State.
	www.sweetliberty.org /issues/wars/whitebook/1.shtml (3363 words)

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