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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 · 1936.07.16
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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 · 1936.01.21
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Extract from the "Manchester Guardian" on the difficult situation in Danzig: Nazi Government of Danzig in revolt against the League of Nations' decisions; Danzig Constitution violated by several laws and decrees issued by the Nazi Government; S. Lester's report on a petition requesting the general elections of 7 April 1935 be invalidated, on the suppression of opposition newspapers and on A. Forster's role as real ruler of Danzig.

Document · 1936.07.21
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Extract from "Le Figaro": A. Forster's speech attacking S. Lester's action as Danzig High Commissioner; huge demonstrations in Poland against the new decrees issued by the Danzig Nazi Government; talks between Polish representatives (the president Moscicki, the general Rydz-Smigly and the Foreign Minister J. Beck) on the situation in Danzig; Geneva awaiting S. Lester's report on Danzig; Italian neutrality regarding Danzig.

Document · 1936.06.28
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Extract from "Le Matin": A. Forster's declarations on the incident between S. Lester and the Captain of the German cruiser "Leipzig", as well as on the presence in Danzig of a High Commissioner; photographs of S. Lester and the "Leipzig" cruiser.

Document · 1936.07.11
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Excerpt from the "Cavalcade" regarding A. Greiser's speech at the League of Nations Council meeting in Geneva in which he demanded that S. Lester be removed from his position as High Commissioner of Danzig and that the power of the High Commissioner be given to the President of the Danzig Senate; comments on the role of A. Forster as A. Hitler's representative in Danzig; provides brief history of Danzig.

Document · 1936.01.23
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Extract from the "Yorkshire Post" on Danzig political situation: Nazis in power seeking to convert Danzig into a Nazi outpost, application of an anti-constitutional policy, influence of A. Forster and A. Greiser, suppression of opposition newspapers, but the League of Nations was guarantor of the Constitution, condemnation by the Hague Court of the decrees of the Senate introducing the "Nazi idea of justice", which took no account of law and could inflict punishment according to "sound, popular feeling", no provision for Danzig return to the Reich, Danzig was a Free City under the League of Nations' supervision.

Press Cutting "Danzig Bears"
Document · 1936.01.25
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Extract from the "Time and Tide" on S. Lester's report regarding flagrant violations of the Constitution by the Danzig Nazi Government, and the fact that the Nazi Government took its orders from the German Nazi Party via A. Forster, German Nazi Gauleiter, as well as on the Nazi danger to the security of Europe.