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about the article "Waiting for Gdansk" (September 2020 issue)

I just wanted to precise that the city of Danzig/Gdansk was definitely not a "cosmopolitan" or a "predominantly" German speaking city before WWII as is said in the article...

In 1918-1919 already wanted the allies have the city of Danzig detached from the German state and at that time the only reason the aliies didn't give the city of Danzig and its region to newly reborn Poland was that Danzig and its region's population was 96% German, that is German speaking, German minded and of German stock...

Interestingly on that matter is the name of the skating boy on page 130: "Lubecki"... this is a German name...

Please keep in mind that selfdetermination for populations was a waranty of the constitutional texts of the SDN as was the US President Wilson's will NOT to change sovereignty on European territories without a public consultation. Both possibilities have been actually denied to the population of Danzig.

In 1945 Poles had to expell more that one million people from Danzig and its region in order to make it Polish... Would the Danzig Population have been given the opportunity to vote in 1945 on the question of sovereignty Danzig should much probably be German today...

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