Albert Forster
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Albert Maria Forster was a German Nazi Party politician, member of the SS and war criminal. During the Second World War, under his administration as the Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Danzig-West
As SS-Gruppenführer c. 1939
![Albert Forster with Arthur Greiser, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Heinrich Hacker [de] and Wilhelm Koppe in the late 1930s](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Greiser%2C_von_dem_Bach%2C_Forster%2C_Hacker%2C_Koppe.jpg/500px-Greiser%2C_von_dem_Bach%2C_Forster%2C_Hacker%2C_Koppe.jpg)
Albert Forster with Arthur Greiser, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Heinrich Hacker [de] and Wilhelm Koppe in the late 1930s
Albert Forster (right, standing in car beside the Reich Labour Service leader Konstantin Hierl saluting), reviewing a parade during the festival of the Danzig Labour Service on 4 June 1939.
Mass execution in Piaśnica
Free City of Danzig
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The Free City of Danzig was a city-state under the protection and oversight of the League of Nations between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig and nearly 200 other small local
Albert Forster
…Nazi Reichstag faction. When elected, he was the youngest deputy in the Reichstag. On 15 October 1930, Forster became the Nazi Party's Gauleiter of the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland), replacing Arthur Greiser who then became the Deputy Gauleiter. This touched off a feud between them and Greiser was to remain…
1,000 Danzig gulden (1924) depicting City Hall
Passport of the Free City of Danzig
Polish passport issued at Danzig by the "Polish Commission for Gdańsk" in 1935 and extended again in 1937, before the holder immigrated to British Palestine the following year
Danzig police arrest a protester in the aftermath of the 1933 Parliamentary Elections