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Document · 1934.02.28
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Extract from "Le Matin" on the political crisis between H. Rauschning, President of the Danzig national-socialist Senate and A. Forster, chief of the national-socialist party of the Free City of Danzig: A. Forster's desire to supplant H. Rauschning.

Press Cutting "In Danzig"
Document · 1934
Part of Private Archives

S. Lester appointed High Commissioner for Danzig by the League of Nations Council took up his new post on the 1st of January 1934; Danzig situation: the Free City of Danzig and its surrounding territory were set up as an independent city and state under the Treaty of Versailles for the purpose of giving Poland a port; the role of the League of Nations and of the High Commissioner: the City State was placed under the protection of the League of Nations, which guaranteed her Constitution and to settle any disputes arising owing to the close relationships of Danzig with the Polish Republic, the League of Nations created the office of resident High Commissioner.

Document · 1934
Part of Private Archives

On S. Lester's appointment and duties as High Commissioner; on the status of Danzig: Free City under the protection of the League of Nations, separated from the rest of the Reich, though its population was overwhelmingly German, the harbour was under the authority of both Danzig and the Poles, the Poles took the precaution of building a new wholly Polish port, at the head of the corridor; tensions between the two peoples because of disputes concerning the alleged smuggling of German goods through Danzig to Poland; the Polish minority in Danzig complained of unfair discrimination and of attacks upon their persons and property; Nazis' victory at the Danzig elections; construction by the Poles of a new railway from Upper Silesia to the Baltic, which avoided Danzig and assured the economic freedom of the country.

Document · 1935.02.23
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Extract from the "Independent" on the dissolution of the Volkstag: since the result of the Saar plebiscite, Nazis's agitation increased in Danzig, by the use of the majority they obtained at the last election of the Volkstag, Nazis forced a dissolution of the Volkstag, in the hope a new election would give them nearly all of the seats; their main objective was to make Danzig to return to Germany.