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
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
Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia 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, and the Reg
Free City of Danzig
…stepped up. After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, the Nazis abolished the Free City and incorporated the area into the newly formed Reichsgau of Danzig-West Prussia. The Nazis classified the Poles and Jews living in the city as subhumans, subjecting them to discrimination, forced labor, and extermination at Nazi…
Polish nationals rounded up during the ethnic cleansing of Gdynia, September 1939
Bydgoszcz in 1940
Aerial reconnaissance photo of Gdynia, 1942
Military barracks in Tczew in 1940