Word: danzig
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...Cornwell isn't the only Indy staffer doing what he's gotta do. For the preview by Peter T. Lattman '92 on the Harvard wrestling team in the same issue, he interviewed three people: John F. Willoughby '90, Aaron M. Danzig '92 and Theodore D. Stachtiaris '92. Danzig is Lattman's Eliot House roommate; Stachtiaris, his blockmate, lives next door...
...mood of euphoric anticipation, left first). As the smoke and fog of the cold war dissipate, so does the postwar division of Europe. With the receding of the two empires, many long dead questions return -- the Hapsburg, the Balkan, even the Danzig question. But none are so formidable as the one the wartime Allies thought they had buried in Berlin in 1945, the German question...
...question of what might have stopped Hitler early on is the question of whether he might have emerged victorious. First, by not going to war at all. If, instead of invading Poland, he had limited himself to threats and bullying, he might have achieved his main demands, control of Danzig and freedom of movement through the Polish Corridor. It is possible, of course, that the whole dynamic of Nazism required war, but if Hitler had been able to stop short of that, he would probably have been widely regarded as the man who undid the defeat of 1918, rebuilt...
Blitzkrieg and deception. In disputed Danzig, the once German port administered by the League of Nations since the end of World War I, the attack had begun half an hour before the invasion, when local Nazi Storm Troopers seized several key buildings and intersections. From the harbor, the battleship Schleswig-Holstein, which had arrived a few days earlier on a "courtesy visit," began emptying its 11-in. guns at the Westerplatte peninsula, where the Poles were authorized to station 88 soldiers. The only real resistance came from the Polish Post Office on Heveliusplatz, where 51 postal workers barricaded the doors...
...been telling the British and French all that week that if they , would agree to a new four-power conference (much like the one at Munich that had carved up Czechoslovakia the previous year), he might be able to arrange some kind of compromise based on the return of Danzig to Germany. Just before noon on the day of the invasion, French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, a devoted believer in the appeasement of Hitler, telephoned Rome to say that France would welcome such a conference. He did not even mention any need for the Germans first to withdraw from Poland...