Word: danzig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began last week at 5:20 a. m. (Polish time) Friday, September 1, when a German bombing plane dropped a projectile on Puck, fishing village and air base in the armpit of the Hel Peninsula. At 5:45 a. m. the German training ship Schleswig-Holstein lying off Danzig fired what was believed to be the first shell: a direct hit on the Polish underground ammunition dump at Westerplatte. It was a grey day, with gentle rain...
...welter of sketchy bulletins, counter-claims and unpronounceable names (see col. j) flowing from Poland, the broad outlines of Germany's assault began to take shape. Recapture of what was Germany in 1914 was the first objective: Danzig, the Corridor, and a hump of Upper Silesia (see map, p. 19). It is believed that Adolf Hitler, if allowed to take and keep this much, might have checked his juggernaut at these lines for the time being. When Britain & France insisted that he withdraw entirely from Polish soil or consider himself at war with them, he determined on the complete shattering...
...Another small band of Poles took and held the Danzig post office until artillery was drawn up to blow away the building's face, gasoline poured on from above and set afire...
...which this crew, long on numbers but short on experience, with plenty of horses but not enough trucks and planes, with their share of guts but not too many guns, was undertaking last week was not just a bilateral frip-frap over a port called Danzig and a 50-mile wide carpet to the sea. It was, in the eyes of General Smigly-Rydz, a holy war. It was a war to stop the Devil, A. Hitler, before he put horns, cleft feet and an arrowy tail on every good Catholic in Poland. It was a war in which Providence...
...granted in that country. . . . The basis for the [Anglo-German] naval treaty has been removed. I have therefore resolved to send today a communication to this effect to the British Government . . . . As regards German-Polish relations . . . some months ago I made a concrete offer to the Polish Government: 1) Danzig returns as a free state into . . . the German Reich; 2) Germany receives a route through the Corridor. . . . The Polish Government has rejected my one and only offer. . . . Therefore I look upon the agreement which Marshal Pilsudski and I at one time concluded as . . . no longer in existence...