Danzig info 1939:

May 27 1939: Wehrmacht General Feodor von Bock, Commander, Army Group North, recommends to German General Staff that a brigade of Germans be raised in Danzig to participate in "Case White."

June 11: Hitler approves von Bock's request; General Friedrich Georg Eberhardt travels to Danzig in civilian clothes to help organize unit.

July 21: Danzig a young student activist named Blume from the Danzig-Langfuhr Technische Hochschule (Institute of Technology) arrested for speaking out about students being drafted into the Heimwehr.

August 1939: Danzig Senate appoints Nazi Gauleiter Albert Forster as head of city, effectively nullifing the city constitution.

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Sept 1: Germany invades Poland - WWII begins
1 section of SS-Heimwehr Danzig attacks Polish troops at the Danzig Post Office* along with armored cars from the Danzig Police. The Poles surrender only when the Danzig Fire Department pumps gas into the building's cellar and ignites it.

October 1939: Polish Army officers from the Danzig's Polish Post Office are tried and executed as guerrillas because they wore no military uniforms (except supposedly for Polish Army underwear!) .

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