Historical place archive

Gdansk in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Gdansk in Germany. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

2 records1 event labels2 people1939–1939

Historical events in Gdansk

1939

21 March 1939
Rule of Gdansk
Joachim von Ribbentrop · NSDAP Government

Hosts Polish Ambassador Jozef Lipski & demands the return of the Free City of Danzig

28 April 1939
Rule of Gdansk
Adolf Hitler · NSDAP Government

Hitler says all he requests from Poland is Danzig & the Polish Corridor

Provenance

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These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match Germany and Gdansk. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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