German annexation of the Free City of Danzig

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The German annexation of the Free City of Danzig was the 1939 incorporation of the semi-autonomous Baltic port city into Nazi Germany, an aggressive move that helped trigger the outbreak of World War II.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi Germany war crime
historical event
territorial annexation
after German occupation of Czechoslovakia
Munich Agreement
annexedTerritory Free City of Danzig
appliesToJurisdiction Free City of Danzig
basedOn German claims to self-determination for ethnic Germans in Danzig
Nazi ideology of Lebensraum
conflict Invasion of Poland
surface form: German–Polish War of 1939
country Nazi Germany
describedBySource historiography of World War II
endTime 1945
followedBy Allied declaration of war on Germany
German occupation of Poland
hasCause German–Polish tensions over Danzig and the Polish Corridor
expansionist policy of Nazi Germany
revision of the Treaty of Versailles
hasEffect end of the Free City of Danzig
escalation of German–British tensions
incorporation of Danzig into the Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia
World War II prelude
surface form: outbreak of World War II

violation of international agreements
legalStatus illegal under international law
location Baltic Sea coast region
surface form: Baltic Sea coast

Gdańsk
surface form: Danzig

Pomerania
opposedBy France
League of Nations
Poland
United Kingdom
partOf Invasion of Poland
surface form: German invasion of Poland

Nazi territorial expansion in the late 1930s
World War II
surface form: World War II in Europe
pointInTime 1939
precededBy Polish–German negotiations of the 1930s
surface form: German–Polish diplomatic crisis of 1938–1939

Nazi seizure of power in the Free City of Danzig Senate
rise of the Nazi Party in Danzig
significantParticipant Adolf Hitler
France
League of Nations
Nazi Party
Government of the Second Polish Republic
surface form: Polish government

Senate of the Free City of Danzig
United Kingdom
Wehrmacht
startTime 1939-09-01
temporalContext early phase of World War II
interwar period

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Volkstag of the Free City of Danzig dissolvedFollowing German annexation of the Free City of Danzig