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Blitzkrieg in Poland: The Battle of Westerplatte - The First Battle of WW2

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A detailed account of key events marking the start of World War II, from Gleiwitz to Warsaw's siege.

The important Baltic port of Danzig was a ‘free’ city, an independent city-state. It had been part of Germany until the area around Danzig was handed to the newly independent state of Poland under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles after the First World War. Though surrounded by Poles, Danzig’s population was largely Germanic – and tensions between the Poles and the Germans in the region m...