[Durus]

Who knew hitler was a Danzig fan? It kind of makes sense though.

[iowamark]

One of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points was a Polish state with access to the sea. This was the “Polish corridor” to the port of Danzig. Danzig's population was mostly German so it was made a “Free City” under a League of Nations Commissioner. The Nazis were very active in the city after Hitler took power in Germany in 1933.

What Hitler really wanted, more than Danzig and the corridor, was control of Poland's Jews and access to Russia for his planned invasion.

“13. An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by international covenant.”