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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).
Danzig was widely considered to be "the most dangerous city in Europe" as the Free City was a flashpoint in German-Polish relations that could cause a war at any moment. [13] Since Poland was allied to France, any German-Polish war would automatically become a Franco-German war, thereby starting another world war.
The Free City of Gdańsk (Polish: Wolne Miasto Gdańsk; German: Freie Stadt 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 Gdańsk (formerly Danzig) and nearly 200 other small localities in the surrounding areas. [4]
The citizens of Danzig received a separate citizenship of the Free City and thus lost their former German citizenship. A customs union with Poland was created by the victorious allies of World War I, and Poland's rights also included free use of the harbour, a Polish post office and a Polish garrison in Westerplatte district.
Carl J. Burckhardt (Red Cross photo) Seat of League of Nations High Commissioner for the Free City of Danzig Carl Jacob Burckhardt (September 10, 1891 – March 3, 1974) was a Swiss diplomat and historian.
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The Bank of Danzig was created under the conditions of the stabilization loan coordinated by the Economic and Financial Organization of the League of Nations in 1923–1024, based on the successful precedent of Austria a year earlier. It was established on 5 February 1924 with a capital of 7.5 million guilders, after the Reichsbank had ceased ...
Directly after the election, the democratic parties submitted a series of appeals against the election result with Danzig’s Supreme Court. On 30 October 1935, a hearing was held before the First Civil Senate of the Danzig Supreme Court, chaired by its president, Walter von Hagens. The court looked at the reported cases and heard 988 witnesses.