ARMED FORCES PUT AT 10,000 IN DANZIG; FREE CITY IS CALM (7/5/39)

Microfiche-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz | 7/5/39 | Frederick T. Birchall

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Subtitle: “SEPTEMBER CRISIS LIKELY”

Good call.

Elite Guards in black uniforms inhabit the Wieden barracks, which also was the home of a German regiment in pre-war days and has been restored and refurbished. There would seem to be between 1,000 and 2,000 of them.

I am getting the idea that Elite Guards = SS.

The Time will come, perhaps quite unexpectedly, when Chancellor Hitler is prepared to strike. But nobody knows what is in Herr Hitler’s mind now.

As William Shirer documented, “nobody” includes most of the German high command. Case White is about ready to execute. Also in this post:

Italy Holds Aloof in Danzig Dispute - 3
Poland Withholds Warning to Danzig – 3, 4
Unity is Stressed by Hore-Belisha [British Secretary of War] - 4
Soviet Pact Talks are Snagged Anew – 6, 7, 8
Nazis Beat Prelate on Austrian Tour; Innitzer Quits Trip [Catholic ping] – 10, 11

[decimon]

“Signor Soffici expresses the attitude adopted by many Italian political thinkers, which is that fascism, like communism is a proletarian revolution aimed at bourgeois capitalism”

[GeronL]

Best guess is late August to Mid September sais that one article...