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2. Free City of Danzig - Wikipedia

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   1 September 1939: Danzig police remove Polish insignia at the Polish–Danzig border near Zoppot. On 1 September 1939, the day of the German invasion of the Free City of Danzig, Forster signed a law declaring the Free City to be incorporated into Germany. On the same day, Hitler signed a law declaring the law signed by Forster to be German law ...

3. Danzig crisis - Wikipedia

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   The Danzig crisis was an important prelude to World War II.The crisis lasted from March 1939 until the outbreak of war on 1 September 1939. The crisis began when tensions escalated between Nazi Germany and the Second Polish Republic over the Free City of Danzig (modern-day Gdańsk, Poland).

4. Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia - Wikipedia

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   Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia (German: Reichsgau Danzig-Westpreußen) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany created on 8 October 1939 from annexed territory of the Free City of Danzig, the Greater Pomeranian Voivodship (Polish Corridor), and the Regierungsbezirk West Prussia of Gau East Prussia.

5. Defence of the Polish Post Office in Danzig - Wikipedia

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   The Defence of the Polish Post Office in Danzig was one of the first acts of World War II in Europe, as part of the September Campaign. [1] [3]: 39, 42 On 1 September 1939 the Invasion of Poland was initiated by Germany when the battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire on the Polish-controlled harbor of Danzig, around 04:45–48 hours.

6. SS Heimwehr Danzig - Wikipedia

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   Flag of the SS Heimwehr Danzig. SS Heimwehr "Danzig" was an SS unit established in the Free City of Danzig (today Gdańsk and environs, Poland) before the Second World War.It fought with the German Army against the Polish Army during the invasion of Poland, and some of its members committed a massacre of Polish civilians [citation needed].

7. History of Gdańsk - Wikipedia

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   Following the annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland, Germany in October 1938 urged the Danzig territory's cession to Germany. On 1 September 1939 Nazi Germany invaded Poland, initiating World War II. On 2 September 1939 Germany officially annexed the Free City.

8. Free City of Danzig Police - Wikipedia

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   Danzig police arrest a protester in the aftermath of the 1933 Parliamentary Elections. Flag for the last years of the Free City Police. After the Nazi takeover of the Senate in 1933, the police were increasingly used to suppress free speech and political dissent. [2] The constabulary itself was also directly affected.

9. Free City of Danzig Government in Exile - Wikipedia

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   Map of the Free City of Danzig existing in the years 1920-1939 German refugees leaving Danzig, February 1945. The Free City of Danzig Government in Exile (German: Regierung der Freien Stadt Danzig im Exil) or the Free State of Danzig, is a title claimed by various groups claiming to be the government in exile of the defunct Free City of Danzig, whose former territory now lies in Poland, around ...