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Document · 1936.01.19
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Extract from the "Sunday Times": attacks on the Danzig High Commissioner by the German Press on the grounds of his proposal of setting up a Committee to investigate the Danzig situation further to Opposition Parties' complaints and of his criticism of A. Forster and A. Greiser.

Document · 1936.07.05
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Article regarding A. Greiser's speech to the League of Nations Council in which he launches a violent tirade against S. Lester and requested that the Council depose S. Lester as High Commissioner and either appoint another High Commissioner or eliminate the position entirely.

Document · 1936.07.16
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Extract from the "Daily Herald": in this article, Elizabeth Wiskemann compared the Free City of Danzig to a concentration camp; since 1933 the Government of Danzig was Nazi; a close collaboration existed between A. Greiser President of the Danzig Senate and A. Forster leader of the Nazi Party; Nazis used violence, terrorism, and corruption; judges were obliged to give pro-Nazi verdicts; the task of the League of Nations High Commissioner at Danzig was difficult since he had duties but no power; two press photographs and a small map.

Document · 1936.07.18
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Extract from the "Belfast News-Letter" regarding a disdainful movement of the hand made by A. Greiser at a meeting of the League of Nations Council, at which he violently attacked the League of Nations in his speeches.

Document · 1936.07.18
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Nazis' new blow in Danzig: new measures taken by the Danzig Nazi Government, presided over by A. Greiser, abolished the freedom guaranteed by the Constitution of the Free City, such as political freedom, freedom of the Opposition press, the right to join associations and the rights of the Jews, and it also established the Gestapo in Danzig, giving the police special powers.