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The Free City of Danzig (German: Freie Stadt Danzig; Polish: Wolne Miasto Gdańsk) 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 (now Gdańsk, Poland) and nearly 200 other small localities in the surrounding areas. [4]
General Government – 1942: Polish People's Republic – 1956-90: See also: Free City of Danzig – 1812: Officially the Kingdom/Tsardom of Poland in a personal union with the Russian Empire. Incorporated in a real union in 1832. Fully integrated in 1867 as the Vistula Land: See also: Free City of Danzig – 1930
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 ...
General Government – 1942: Polish People's Republic – 1956-90: See also: Free City of Danzig – 1812: Officially the Kingdom/Tsardom of Poland in a personal union with the Russian Empire. Incorporated in a real union in 1832. Fully integrated in 1867 as the Vistula Land: See also: Free City of Danzig – 1930
Subdivision of Polish territories during World War II can be divided into several phases. The territories of the Second Polish Republic were first administered first by Nazi Germany (in the west) and the Soviet Union (in the east), then (following the German invasion of the Soviet Union) in their entirety by Nazi Germany, and finally (following Soviet push westwards) by the Soviet Union again.
German-occupied Europe at the height of the Axis conquests in 1942 Gaue, Reichsgaue and other administrative divisions of Germany proper in January 1944. According to the Treaty of Versailles, the Territory of the Saar Basin was split from Germany for at least 15 years. In 1935, the Saarland rejoined Germany in a lawful way after a plebiscite.
Wartheland was the only Gau constituted solely from annexed territory, [3] Danzig-West Prussia comprised also former German areas and the former Free City of Danzig. The occupied General Government remained outside Nazi Germany. The annexation violated international law (in particular, the Hague Convention IV 1907).
Danzig-West Prussia (German: Danzig-Westpreußen) and Wartheland, formed from the Free City of Danzig and areas annexed from Poland; The East March was subsequently subdivided into seven smaller Reichsgaue, generally coterminous with the former Austrian Länder (federal provinces).