#Danzig-Westpreussen

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Created at the Treaty of Versailles (that unmitigated disaster of an agreement....), the Free City of Danzig was a semi-autonomous city-state somewhat in the style of the old timey city-states common throughout Europe - although in this case nominally administered by the League of Nations in order to give Poland a route to the sea (despite the city of Danzig being something like 98% German), without actually giving Danzig (or Gdańsk as it was and is known in Polish) to Poland.  Long a part of the Polish Empire, the loss of Gdańsk to the Prussians/Germans/League of Nations smarted mightily, and Poland did everything in its power to circumvent the need to use the Free City of Danzig as a port.  Danzig was reoccupied and subsumed into Nazi Germany in 1939, bad things happened to all the non-German inhabitants, and after the war the German inhabitants were duly expelled and Gdańsk returned to Poland.

Stamp details: Stamps on top: Issued on: January 31, 1921 From: Free City of Danzig MC #53-55

Middle stamp: Issued on: May 15, 1922 From: Free City of Danzig MC #71

Bottom left: Issued on: November 28, 1937 From: Free City of Danzig MC #274

Bottom right: Issued in: 1939 From: Free City of Danzig MC #296

Recognized as a sovereign state by the UN: No Claimed by: Republic of Poland Member of the Universal Postal Union: No

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Danziger genealogische Tafeln

Patrizier, Bürger, Einwohner der Freien und Hansestadt Danzig in Stamm- und Namentafeln vom 14.-18. Jahrhundert, gesammelt von Dorothea Weichbrodt geb. v. Tiedemann.

5 Bände, erschienen zwischen 1988 und 1993

Auf der Seite des Vereins für Familienforschung in Ost- und Westpreussen e.V.gib es eine Datenbank mit den Scans der Danziger genealogischen Tafeln. Diese Sammlung wurde von Dorothea…

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Image taken from page 128 of 'Wespreussische Heimat. Beiträge zur Geschichte und Landeskunde Westpreussens'

Image taken from: Title: "Wespreussische Heimat. Beiträge zur Geschichte und Landeskunde Westpreussens", "Appendix" Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 10256.d." Volume: 02 Page: 128 Place of Publishing: Danzig Date of Publishing: 1891 Issuance: monographic Identifier: 003002587 Explore: Find this item in the British Library catalogue, 'Explore'. Download the PDF for this book (volume: 02) Image found on book scan 128 (NB not necessarily a page number) Download the OCR-derived text for this volume: (plain text) or (json) Click here to see all the illustrations in this book and click here to browse other illustrations published in books in the same year. Order a higher quality version from here. from BLPromptBot https://ift.tt/2MlMVAV

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Image taken from page 52 of 'Wespreussische Heimat. Beiträge zur Geschichte und Landeskunde Westpreussens'

Image taken from: Title: "Wespreussische Heimat. Beiträge zur Geschichte und Landeskunde Westpreussens", "Appendix" Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 10256.d." Volume: 02 Page: 52 Place of Publishing: Danzig Date of Publishing: 1891 Issuance: monographic Identifier: 003002587 Explore: Find this item in the British Library catalogue, 'Explore'. Download the PDF for this book (volume: 02) Image found on book scan 52 (NB not necessarily a page number) Download the OCR-derived text for this volume: (plain text) or (json) Click here to see all the illustrations in this book and click here to browse other illustrations published in books in the same year. Order a higher quality version from here. from BLPromptBot https://ift.tt/2UEwHEV

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