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In preparation for war with Poland, in the spring of 1939 Hitler demands the annexation of the Free City of Danzig to Germany and extraterritorial rail access for Germany across the "Polish Corridor," the Polish frontier to East Prussia
Takes the march past in Danzig
The Germans construct the Stutthof camp in a wooded area west of Stutthof, a town about 22 miles east of Danzig
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