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Danzig finally fell on 30 March 1945, after which the remnants of the 2nd Army withdrew to the Vistula delta southeast of the city. Evacuation of civilians and military personnel from there and from the Hel Peninsula continued until 10 May 1945. The Soviets declared the East Pomeranian offensive complete a week after the fall of Danzig.
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]
Banned by Joseph Goebbels in November 1942 for unspecified reasons. Afrika Korps: Documentary Andreas Schlüter: Herbert Maisch: Heinrich George: A film about the sculptor Andreas Schlüter; subliminal Nazi propaganda throughout. Anuschka: Helmut Käutner: Hilde Krahl, Siegfried Breuer, Friedl Czepa: Drama Attack on Baku: Fritz Kirchhoff: Willy ...
Danzig, Danzig Region, Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia, Greater German Reich Siege of Danzig: Dietrich von Saucken: 2nd Belorussian Front. Polish rebels. 7 March 1945 15 March 1945 30 March 1945 2 weeks and 1 day Now called Gdańsk. Demyansk, Army Group Rear Area Command: Demyansk Pocket: 22 February 1942: 8 February 1942: 20 May 1942
German-occupied Europe (or Nazi-occupied Europe) refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly militarily occupied and civil-occupied, including puppet governments, by the military forces and the government of Nazi Germany at various times between 1939 and 1945, during World War II, administered by the Nazi regime under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.
The first 150 inmates, imprisoned on 2 September 1939, were selected among Poles and Jews arrested in Danzig immediately after the outbreak of war. [3] The inmate population rose to 6,000 in the following two weeks, on 15 September 1939. Until 1942, nearly all of the prisoners were Polish.
All maps by Alphathon and based upon Blank map of Europe.svg unless otherwise stated. Deutsch: Diese Karte ist Teil einer Serie historischer politischer Europakarten. Solange nicht anders angegeben, wurden alle Karten durch Alphathon auf Basis von Blank map of Europe.svg erstellt, sofern nicht anders angegeben.
Data from the 19th century and early 20th century show the following ethnic changes in four main counties of the corridor (Puck and Wejherowo on the Baltic Sea coast; Kartuzy and Kościerzyna between the Province of Pomerania and Free City of Danzig): The Polish Corridor: map of Puck (77.4%), Wejherowo (54.9%), Kartuzy (77.3%) and Kościerzyna ...