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Word: danzig (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolf Hitler has given Germany so many territorial presents in the past three years that, as a present for Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday this week, the German Government thought of giving one to him-Danzig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Birthday Present? | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...Free City of Danzig, ostensibly governed by Poland and the League of Nations, is Poland's No. 2 port. It handles two-thirds the tonnage of nearby, all-Polish Gdynia. For four years Danzig has been run by a German Nazi Government. For Germany to take Danzig would be, politically, like the Italians taking Albania. The question that made Danzig a birthday box with a bomb in it was: how much more grabbing will the "Peace Front" permit the Axis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Birthday Present? | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...clubs and wire whips and injured considerably because they spoke German." German divisions were moved up to Poland's western border. On their part, the Poles ordered Polish Nazis to take off their distinctive white socks, and moved new divisions into place opposite the German Army concentrations. In Danzig itself, newspapers reported that Adolf Hitler would be made an honorary citizen of the Free City on his birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Birthday Present? | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

BERLIN--Chancellor Adolf Hitler today ordered the Reichstag to meet April 28 to hear his answer to what the Nazi-controlled press described as President Roosevelt's "hafe message." Coincidentally reports that Hitler might become master of Danzig within a few days increased...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 4/18/1939 | See Source »

...British treaty, said Herr Hitler's diplomats and newspapers, would be considered an unfriendly act against the Third Reich. Furthermore, the signing of such a treaty was likely so to incense the Führer that, instead of asking merely for the return of the Free City of Danzig and a road across the Polish Corridor as he is now doing, Aggrandizer Hitler would raise the ante and want Polish Silesia, a slice of the Polish Ukraine, the Corridor in toto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: MADMEN AND FOOLS | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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