This website uses cookies to enhance your ability to browse and load content. More Info.
The person requesting information was of Danziger nationality and the author of the "Revolution des Nihilismus".
Weakening position of the Danzig High Commissioner; Aryan Law could be pretext to withdraw the High Commissioner.
Foreign Office views on the League of Nations and Danzig; Polish-German discussions on the future of Danzig; C.J. Burckhardt's possible resignation from the post of Danzig High Commissioner.
History, general situation, High Commissioner's job.
Some Danziger views on Nazis; epistolary curiosities.
1933: S. Lester was appointed High Commissioner of the Free City of Danzig by the League of Nations Council. He officially took his functions on 15 January 1934. His main role was the one of mediator between the Danzig population, the Poles and Germans.
Article in "Le Matin" on National Socialist chiefs in Danzig proposing to the Senate to forbid Sean Lester's return to Danzig from Geneva.
Title page only of a folder mentioned "confidential" regarding the correspondence from 1st January to 20th December 1935 between S. Lester, High Commissioner at Danzig, and the Secretary-General, as well as two other people.
Extract from the "Manchester Guardian": explanations on the status of Danzig, German city at the head of the Polish corridor, dependent on Poland for its commercial prosperity.
Gauleiter (Regional Leader) A. Forster, from Nazi Party; his speech in the presence of Arthur Greiser, President of the Danzig Senate.