Danzig und Umgegend
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Caption: A Polish marine patrol protected by Danzig police. The Polish patrols are to protect if necessary Polish subjects, who form only three per cent of the population, but Danzigers think it more necessary to protect the Polish patrols against the provocation. No Polish soldiers are permitted in Danzig by treaty.
Auckland Star 5 Dec. 1936: 8. Papers Past. Web. |
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Caption: Objective of German aggression. A view of the waterfront at Danzig, the port of the “Free” City.
Auckland Star 2 Sept. 1939: 9. Papers Past. Web. |
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Caption: Britain holds most of the shares in the International Shipbuilding Company, to which the shipyards in Danzig where these derricks are at work belong.
Auckland Star 19 Aug. 1939: 1. Papers Past. Web. |
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Caption: Entrance to the harbour of the free port of Danzig.
Evening Post [Wellington, NZ] 8 Aug. 1939: 9. Papers Past. Web. |
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Caption: Poland's trade with the outside world is large and vital to her existence. This Danzig harbour scene illustrates why the Poles are prepared to fight to maintain their status in Danzig, with the support of Britain and France.
Auckland Star 19 Aug. 1939: 1. Papers Past. Web. |
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Caption: Nazis demonstrate against Poland in the Free City of Danzig. Final event of a week-end Nazi festival in Danzig was a parade in which 8000 Danzig and East Prussian Storm Troopers took part. The display, according to to-day's reports, was obviously intended as a demonstration against Poland. Above, a uniformed detachment of Hitler Youth marching over Danzig's Mottlau Bridge.
New Zealand Herald [Auckland] 13 June 1939: 9. Papers Past. Web. |
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Caption: The waterfront of the Free City of Danzig. An aerial view of the port of Danzig. Nazi sentries have been placed in the city's shipyards, through which, according to reports, arms from Germany are being landed.
New Zealand Herald [Auckland] 7 July 1939: 11. Papers Past. Web. |
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Caption: German warship at the Free City of Danzig. The presence of the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein (above) at Danzig is regarded as threatening by the Poles. Although the Schleswig-Holstein was built in 1906 she has been modernised and is armed with four 11 in. guns.
New Zealand Herald [Auckland] 30 Aug. 1939: 11. Papers Past. Web. |
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Port Gdański. Opracowane przez Radę Portu i Drog Wodnych w Gdańsku. (Wydane przez tygodnik Przemysł i Handel) Warszawa, 1929.
Overview of the city and port of Danzig.
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One fragment of the port.
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Entrance to the harbor.
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A ship in the free zone.
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The port canal.
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Storage buildings for grain and sugar.
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Overview of the new area for bulk goods.
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Coal loading device. Page 24.
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Bridges for handling ore and phosphates.
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Moving wood to the ships via the water.
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View of the Danzig shipyard.
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One of the floating docks.
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Ships in the port.
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Ships in the new basin for bulk goods.
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Floating cranes at work.
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Unloading tobacco.
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Shipment of pipes by the “Ferrum” company, designed for export to Japan.
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Automatic scoop for the shipment of coal.
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General cargo in the free zone.
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Wooden parts (e.g. pallets).
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Unloading a shipment of sugar from a boat on the Vistula to the warehouse.
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Kaiserhafen and the basin at Holm [island].
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1925 photos. From Bertling, Anton. Danzig : illustrierter Führer durch den Freistaat Danzig (1924).
Die Lange Bruecke mit dem Krantor (The Long Bridge and the Crane)
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[To the great joy of the people of Danzig, the German navy school ship "Schleswig-Holstein" was brought into the city's harbor by the high seas tugs "Albert Forster" and "Danzig".] (1939)
Content : Picture caption: "Unter dem Jubel der Danziger Bevölkerung wird das Schulschiff der deutschen Kriegsmarine 'Schleswig-Holstein' von den Hochseeschleppern 'Albert Forster' und 'Danzig' in den Danziger Hafen eingebracht."
Original Source Link. (New York Public Library)
Content : Picture caption: "Unter dem Jubel der Danziger Bevölkerung wird das Schulschiff der deutschen Kriegsmarine 'Schleswig-Holstein' von den Hochseeschleppern 'Albert Forster' und 'Danzig' in den Danziger Hafen eingebracht."
Original Source Link. (New York Public Library)