A box of chocolate helped my family escape Nazi controlled Free City of Danzig in the late 1930’s. Planning started in the summer of 1937 when my great-uncle George and his wife, Margaret, my ...
After World War I, Danzig was named a "Free City" and was put under the protection of the League of Nations in the Treaty of Versailles, stripping it from German control. With its strategic port on ...
The proud old Hanseatic City of Danzig and its small surrounding hinterland worked and played last week so normally that uninformed visitors could scarcely have guessed what international storms were ...