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Danzig city government
Caption: Nazi president takes to flight. Dr. Rauschnigg [sic], Nazi President at Danzig until November, 1934, fled the territory after the recent elections.

Auckland Star 1 May 1935: 5. Papers Past. Web.
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Dr Sahm, maire de Dantzig et le Général Von Mackensen pendant la réunion pour le Dantzig allemand : [photographie de presse] / Sennecke
Dr Sahm, maire de Dantzig et le Général Von Mackensen pendant la réunion pour le Dantzig allemand : [photographie de presse] / Sennecke
Source: gallica.bnf.fr
Danzig Mayor Heinrich Sahm speaks with General Mackensen during a meeting on the reunion of Danzig with Germany.

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Caption: Herr Albert Foerster, Nazi Fuehrer in Danzig.

Auckland Star 11 Aug. 1939: 7. Papers Past. Web.
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Caption: Campaign for the return of Danzig to the Reich. Herr Albert Forster (centre), leader of the Danzig Nazis, and his lieutenants at the great parade of local Nazis in the Free City on July 2. Behind is a banner which reads: “Danzig is a German town and cleaves to Germany.”


New Zealand Herald [Auckland] 19 July 1939: 13. Papers Past. Web.
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League of Nations officials
High Commissioners
Genève, S.D.N. : M. Van Hamel, haut commissaire de la S.D.N. à Dantzig : [photographie de presse] / Agence Meurisse
Genève, S.D.N. : M. Van Hamel, haut commissaire de la S.D.N. à Dantzig : [photographie de presse] / Agence Meurisse
Source: gallica.bnf.fr
Von Hamel, League of Nations High Commissioner at Danzig.

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Caption: Mr. Sean Lester, High Commissioner of the League of Nations at the “Free City” of Danzig, whose car was bombarded with mud as he drove through the city on Friday.

Evening Post [Wellington, NZ] 1 Apr. 1935: 5. Papers Past. Web.
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Portrait de M. Lester, ex-haut commissaire de la S.D.N. à Dantzig, qui prend la succession de M. Ascarati comme sous secrétaire général de la S.D.N. à Genève : [photographie de presse] / Agence Meurisse
Portrait de M. Lester, ex-haut commissaire de la S.D.N. à Dantzig, qui prend la succession de M. Ascarati comme sous secrétaire général de la S.D.N. à Genève : [photographie de presse] / Agence Meurisse
Source: gallica.bnf.fr
Sean Lester, League of Nations High Commissioner at Danzig.

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Portrait du professeur Burkhardt, nouveau haut commissaire de la S.D.N. à Dantzig : [photographie de presse] / Agence Meurisse
Portrait du professeur Burkhardt, nouveau haut commissaire de la S.D.N. à Dantzig : [photographie de presse] / Agence Meurisse
Source: gallica.bnf.fr
Carl J. Burckhart, League of Nations High Commissioner at Danzig.

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Port and Waterways Board
Genève, S.D.N. : M. le Colonnel de Loës, Président du port et des voies d
Genève, S.D.N. : M. le Colonnel de Loës, Président du port et des voies d'eau de Dantzig : [photographie de presse] / Agence Meurisse
Source: gallica.bnf.fr
Colonel de Loës, President of the Danzig Port and Waterways Board.


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Polish government officials
Caption: The man least to be envied in Europe to-day is M. Chodacki, Polish Commissioner in Danzig, seen here with his wife. To him is entrusted the task of safeguarding his country's interests in the overwhelming Nazi “Free” City.

Auckland Star 22 Aug. 1939: 9. Papers Past. Web.
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Other
A Conference on the Danzig Question by Representatives of the Allies and Germans in a Parlor Car Near Spa.
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Image from page 527 of "The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war" (1919)
Authors: Miller, J. Martin (James Martin), b. 1859 Canfield, Harry S. [from old catalog], joint author Plewman, William Rothwell, 1880- [from old catalog]

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Mennonite World Conference Assembly 2, Danzig, Poland 1930.  
Citation: Mennonite World Conference Records, 1923-2012. X-009. Mennonite Church USA Archives - Goshen. Goshen, Indiana. Box 20, Folder 2.

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