Why Was Danzig Made a Free City? | Germany, Poland, and a City Between Nations

[@LookBackHistory]

Should Danzig have been left with Germany, ceded to Poland, or made a Free City as it was in reality?

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

Poland.

[@MominEnjoyer]

Poland.

[@occam7382]

Personally, I think Danzig should've remained German as part of East Prussia, but with strict guarantees that Berlin would allow Poland access to international trade through the city. The problem with compromises like the Free City is often that, in their attempt to make everyone happy, they make no one happy, and in fact, just end up exasperating the problem the compromise was intended to solve. Sometimes, there really is just no use in trying to please everyone.

[@thelvadam2884]

@@occam7382 yes i very much agree !

[@thelvadam2884]

@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 under the rules of self debromination it belongs to germany and german people as like 90-95% were germans. if you do not agree to this rules, then the 4 partition might as well be legitimate.

[@Snp2024]

Only if poland did danzing focus first and elected hollezorn king from Romania.

[@19MAD95]

A joke from 2016

[@LookBackHistory]

@@Snp2024 Haha 😆

[@Awesomewithaz]

​@@19MAD95 dude why bring up your birth?

[@officernotacop]

@@Awesomewithaz bro probably only plays on recruit difficulty

[@kennethcarney5874]

Lay off the vodka

[@pamietamGryWpodchody]

Gdańsk's nationality: 997-1227: Duchy/Kingdom of Poland 1227-1294: Duchy of Pomerania 1294-1308: Duchy/Kingdom of Poland 1308-1410: Kingdom of the Teutonic Order 1410-1411: Crown of the Kingdom of Poland 1411-1454: Kingdom of the Teutonic Order 1454-1569: Crown of the Kingdom of Poland 1569-1793: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland 1793-1807: Kingdom of Prussia (Germany) 1807-1814: Free City of Danzig (dependent on the French Empire) 1815-1871: Kingdom of Prussia (Germany) 1871-1918: German Empire 1918-1920: Weimar Republic (Germany) 1920-1939: Free City of Gdansk (Poland and Germany) 1939-1945: Third Reich 1945-present: Poland ================================================== Summary: - Poland: 230+ 14+ 103+ 224= 571 years - Germany: 49+ 6= 55 years - Pomerania: 67 years old - Prussia: 146+ 14+ 56= 216 years - Free City: 7+ 19= 26 years ================================================== Poland: 571 years Germany + Duchy of Pomerania + Teutonic Order (Prussia) + Free City = 364 years 571+ 78 {2023-1945}= 649 Gdansk has been within Poland for 641 years to this day and outside Poland for only 364 years. Germany should to stay behind Oder river. Most of the visited tenement houses and other buildings in the old market square in Gdańsk come from the times of the Polish Golden Age, not from German times (although the Germans also built their buildings) Thank you!

[@paulizzs4720]

0-1308 Prusian pagans

[@youtubeisdeletingourcomments]

​@paulizzs4720 ha ha, look it up again

[@GORO1331]

@@paulizzs4720 prussian at that time it was not german!!!it was cousin of all balts you intelectual germ-subhuman...

[@Miszczyn]

​@@paulizzs4720 if you Want to count "0-1308 prussians" as germans then you are wrong. Prussians weren't germanised back then and were speaking prussian(which is similiar to lithuanian), not german

[@robertab929]

@@paulizzs4720 Trusso and Elbląg was a part of Baltic Prussians until they were conquered by Teutonic State. Gdańsk has been mainly West Slavic and Polish.

[@lancia2785]

I'm very glad you pointed out that it belonged to Poland before partitions, many people leave that out and it makes it sound like Gdansk's history was only German and the Poles had no historical attatchment to it.

[@Cookie14653]

+ It was mostly historical Polish

[@user-lx6pr5tx4p]

The truth is that Gdańsk is now a Polish city for which the cultures of Polish and Germany had an equal impact, and we should look at them in this way without arguing about whose city it is. Greets from Poland.

[@peterdegenhardt8444]

@@Cookie14653It was ruled by Polish kings but had a mostly german population most times during history

[@pukpuk7642]

In Gdańsk, the German population began to dominate because the Germans, during the Prussian domination, made it difficult for Poles to settle there, so that they could make a career, they had to learn German, etc. There was a large-scale policy of denationalization in whole Prussia as well as buying up even the estates from Poles and depriving them of their land , Poles were blocked from establishing businesses , they couldn't learn Polish in schools etc .

[@magdaty1815]

Nikt nie chce o tym pamiętać tak jak o rusyfikacji wschodnich ziem Polski po lubelskie włącznie, o odbieraniu ziem Polakom, zasiedlaniu ich Rusinami, budowaniu cerkwi przez carów. Od stu lat nacjonaliści ukr. stają w obronie Moskwy, carów, rusyfikacji upominając się o zmyślony "Zakierzoń" i mówiąc że przedwojenna wschodnia Polska była ich dlatego były te mordy 80 lat temu.

[@dirkbimini5963]

This is stupid. Danzig was a German speaking city from the 1250 until 1945. Even when Danzig was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Polish was taught as foreign language in only one (!) school.

[@przemysprzemys9497]

@@dirkbimini5963 sources please

[@AntoineELismysalvation]

@@dirkbimini5963 Everything East of Elbe river is Slavic.

[@pukpuk7642]

@@dirkbimini5963 First of all, what does German speaking mean? Does that mean that the Germans forced everyone to speak German, otherwise you couldn't make a career in Gdańsk and exist there ?

[@Remington510]

Good video. Accurate, coherent, proper pronunciation (kudos) and no visible bias.

[@LookBackHistory]

Thanks. Those are the goals.

[@Remington510]

@@LookBackHistory Well, you have reached them, sir. Probably at a price of viewership/algorithm, but investing towards the future. Subbing. Wish you the best in upholding your principles over monetization policies (history channels vs KZbin :( ) THANK YOU ;)

[@6Oko6Demona6]

1:45 Ut went to Prussia unwillingly. That has to be added. It was even a Polish exclave in Prussia for some twenty years. Because citizens of Gdańsk didn't want to be incorporated into Prussia and joined Polish war effort against the invading forces. Saying it was german is like saying Switzerland or Luxembourg are German. Sadly, during the 19th century they, as german speakers and protestants were more prone to Prussian Kulturkampf, which largely succeeded in the city.

[@Staszk01]

There was even quite large emmigration from Gdańsk after the 2nd Partition (large for the logistical reality of 18th century of course), with family of 5 year old Arthur Schopenhauer leaving for Hamburg

[@paulizzs4720]

Preußen und Pommern gehörten jahrhundertelang den Deutschen

[@bernhartschmieder9401]

Man the president of Danzig literally sent a letter to hitler stating how much the people of Danzig wanted to be part of Germany again and how much the current oppression of the poles aided by the other countries were damaging the Danzig germans. The president asked hitler to incorporate Danzig into Germany again and that caused the war because Poland didn't want that despite there being almost no poles in there.

[@AVGVSTVSXÈNOPHON]

​@bernhartschmieder9401 No, what caused the war was german cruel imperialism and nothing else. There were also other demands or rather pretexts to start another war like exteritorrial corridor etc. We've already seen how it ended up in Czechia to accept german initial "requests".

[@xpr3ss.755]

@@6Oko6Demona6 beta aura

[@andrzejkowalski4021]

Gdansk was established in 990 AD by Polish Pomeranian Duke. In 1309 was taken over by cheatery by Crusaders and in1454 Gdansk and other cities in Pomerania and Prussia mutined against the Crusaders and asked the Polish King for protection. So since then Gdansk was a free city within the Polish Kingdom until 1793 when was taken over by Prussia.

[@optional-wv5rp]

"Cheatery" Bro is flabbergasted by medival politics😭😭😭

[@kubazy4669]

@@optional-wv5rp not the politics if you falsify the documents stating you own the city

[@przemysprzemys9497]

@@kubazy4669 ...and you murder Polish inhabitants

[@Macion-sm2ui]

I live nerby former polish-danziger border - just before WWII there were border tensions between Poland and Germany that also included Danzig - about one week before the war our border guard was killed by Danziger Germans and now, every year we have patriotic events in the former polish-danziger border so his name won't be forgotten. This event isn't big, I am not even sure whether majority of people in my city knows about it, but from time to time some country level polititians joins this event.

[@Macion-sm2ui]

Also my grandma have liked to tell a humorous story about Polish workers that wanted to work in free city. So, there is grop of Polish workers, that goes to Danzig. They have to went thought Polish and German border controll. First is Polish one - soilder asks them "Gdzie idziecie?" (pl: "Where are you going") - they respons "Do Freiestadtu na roboty" (pl: To Freiestadt [free city in German] to work). Soilder tell them: ok, then go. Next there is german soilder. He asks them "wohin gehst du?" (ger: where are you going?) And they respons: "Panie, my nie do Chin, my do Freiestadtu na roboty" (sir, we are not going to China, we are going to Freiestadt to work"). In this story the funny part is fact, that german word "wohin" (where) sound like Polish phrase "do Chin" (to China). I know that in times of internet memes such stories probably doesn't make anyone laugh, but it's authentic pre war story.

[@dariuszgurdaa8277]

Jakiej miejscowości dotyczy to wydarzenie...?

[@Macion-sm2ui]

@@dariuszgurdaa8277 Tczew, a właściwie to pogranicze dwóch wiosek - Miłobądza i Kolnika. Miłobądz leżał po Polskiej stronie, a Kolnik po Gdańskiej. Jak się jedzie do Gdańska starą jedynką (teraz jest to droga 91) to jak wyjedzie się z Miłobądza po lewej stronie można zobaczyć słup który pokazuje w którym miejscu przebiegała granica. Po prawej stronie jest parking więc można się zatrzymać. Tam gdzie jest słup jest taka mała polanka i tablica pamiątkowa czy coś w tym stylu (już nie pamiętam, dawno tam nie byłem) i co roku po mszy gdzieś w sierpniu są uroczystości, na które przychodzą władze gminne i różni działacze, a czasami politycy (najczęściej z PiSu - był kiedyś Płażyński, była Fotyga)

[@Macion-sm2ui]

@@dariuszgurdaa8277 maps.app.goo.gl/x7JyjayytmvAbf2o8

[@tomek7946]

@@Macion-sm2ui Dzięki za ciekawą informację. Da się dojechać rowerem do tego byłego punktu granicznego z tablicą pamiątkową bez konieczności jechania krajówką?

[@RollerCoaster-ok7qw]

At least Gdansk remains an European city. When it comes to other German cities, it is quite doubtful whether they are still European cities.

[@keeperofthefate]

Okay I'll bite. What is your criteria for being european city? Geography? Does Nicosia qualify? Ethnicity? Does Montreal qualify? Political? Does Cayenne qualify? I'm asking as citizen of Gdańsk, because your comment denies "europeness" to german cities in modern Germany. Could you elaborate why?

[@RollerCoaster-ok7qw]

@ Geography plays a role. However, Europe is more culturally to be viewed as a continent than geographically. Because it is part of Eurasia. And if I look at Germany culturally, more and more German cities are detached from their European roots and are transforming into something Islamic, Middle Eastern. In some German cities such as Offenbach or Frankfurt am Main is now only a minority autochonous. There will be Ramadan lighting in cities like Cologne and Munich this year and there are more Muslim children than Christian children in Berlin elementary schools. This is okay, but it is not European city anymore.

[@joenuts4803]

@@RollerCoaster-ok7qw Grow up. Honestly. Christianity has already transformed europe into a judaisto-arabo-african continent and you're complaining about a small amount of foreigners ?

[@optional-wv5rp]

LBH allowing actual white nationalist LARP comments is a surprise to be sure.

[@keeperofthefate]

@ 1. Statistics show that second generation muslim immigrant women fertility goes below native fertility in entire Europe. 2. Over 7/10 muslim converts reverts after few years. Rates of muslim themselves going atheist, once reaching western countries is bigger than christians. 3. You do realise that most german cities are overwhelmingly populated by germans. There is no german city, where ethnic germans drop below 80% and only few below 90% ethnic germans. Your feels, media reports and facebook posts are not valid data.

[@EdMcF1]

In the mid-1980s, I was travelling around Germany when Interrailing across western Europe, and I was in a carriage with a Polish lady with her school-age daughter, and two elderly German ladies. They started conversing about 'Danzig' and I immediately thought of the corridor and all that inter-War stuff. I then started looking for 'Danzig' in my railway timetable book and couldn't find it. I was utterly baffled for about 20 minutes then I realised it was of course Gdansk, by then famous for Lech Wałesa and Solidarity.

[@tobiwan001]

7:32 In total 12 million people fled or were mostly expelled - including one side of my family. Unfortunately, they moved to the part of Berlin that would become part of the GDR and the life they had rebuilt and their house was lost again when they fled shortly before the wall was built to west Germany. So they managed to lose everything due to the Nazis, the expulsion of Germans from what is now Poland and then from the Soviet GDR dictatorship. Remarkably they were not bitter about losing everything 3 times, but about finally finding peace. And I think that's the only way forward in life and in politics.

[@Magnuspedites]

@@tobiwan001 well said bro, no more wars, no more revisionism

[@6Oko6Demona6]

Well, who the Nazis were? I believe 90% of people in Danzig supported NSDAP, so saying your family was hurt by Nazis is unfair. They were the Nazis!

[@Adixeeel]

@@tobiwan001 it was always Polish, it was just stolen by the Germans.

[@optional-wv5rp]

@@Adixeeel That's like saying Los Angeles was always mexican land, even though it was transformed from a small mexican settlement to a giant city build by Brits (and Western Europeans). You cannot logically come to this conclusion without lying to yourself.

[@Adixeeel]

@optional-wv5rp you have nothing to do with logical thinking Gdansk was built by Poles it developed as a Polish port at the mouth of the Vistula Poles could have done to the Germans the same thing that the Germans did by occupying this city I'm talking about 1308 even if they were the majority and they weren't before the partitions they were loyal to Poland until the end that's why it didn't join Prussia in the first partition only in the second then the mayor gave up his position in favor of protest Poles were the largest group of all but in this city all the gates most of the cathedrals defensive walls practically everything was built by Poland without Poland this city meant nothing with Poland it was the most important port on the Baltic Sea You can see this from what happened when Poland built the New Port of Gdynia Gdansk practically ceased to exist in terms of trade despite the fact that it was in a strategic Polish place at the mouth of the most Polish river Vistula which runs through the whole of Poland through the most important cities of Krakow and Warsaw in general. you don't know history and don't speak this city was briefly German and they only destroyed it then

[@keeperofthefate]

As a guy who was born in Gdańsk in 1986 and lives here (I even bought a flat here), I agree that, before 1945 Danzig was german. Now it's polish. There is no doubt about it. To be fair (*letterkenny choir intensifies!*), historically, Danzig was better of whenever polish state existed in entirety of Vistula river. It's golden age run in parallel to Poland-Lithuania commonwelth's golden age. Gdańsk was setup as Poland's main sea port and benefited greatly from this. Whenever it got cut off by borders or political reasons, it was hit hard and suffered. Look at modern Gdańsk. It's trice as big as prewar city was and it is again Poland's major port, despite Gdynia and Stetin existing in the same state. I doubt that in Germany Danzig would be more than some provincial city, with jaggernaut like Hamburg existing. All and all, even though most of us in Gdańsk are immigrants or children of immigrants, we try to cultivate it rich history. We restored what we could of it's amazing historical old city. Public transport is full of plates commemoreting famous "Danzingers". I've spent my childhood near Wajdeloty street, where Farenheit lived (or I think he lived in vicinity of that street). This is in stark contrast to what happened to Konigsberg. City was mostly razed to ground, german history is not thought there and even it's modern name has no relation to it's original one. Whenever I see tourist german groups in Gdańsk or even in lower Wrzeszcz, I'm proud that people of my city took effort to preserve this piece of history for them. Them returning here year after year is the best certificate, that we are caring and preserving, what we got after loosing our eastern lands.

[@mecx7322]

In Krolewiec/Konigsberg/Kaliningrad nowadays only Immanuel Kant, famous Prussian philosopher is celebrated.

[@dasher2xx]

@@keeperofthefate antypolak

[@lostininternet3611]

Prussia created by the Teutonic Knights was like a total cancer in the middle of Polish territory because that church state had little strategic depth, so in order to survive it had to strangle Poland economically and eat Poland in every aspect.

[@emilianohermosilla3996]

Missed your videos!

[@LookBackHistory]

Hey! Thanks!

[@Zachomq]

Danzig was an impossible situation, with an impractical solution. No doubt it was one of the reasons that caused the bitterness that lead to the nazi regime

[@thelvadam2884]

yes i agree. and we see similar bitterness today again as far right and hate is growing in the world .... i am concerned and somewhat afraid of the future

[@byronmann4525]

@@thelvadam2884far right far left isn’t as much the problem as “far” is. Extremists on both sides make the world shittier. That being said Europe has an uncontrollably large amount of immigrants and refugees that needs ceasing or their European cultures will be gone to people that don’t appreciate their current country.

[@AdamSakowicz-hs7ss]

Nonsense and Nazi apologia

[@Zachomq]

@@AdamSakowicz-hs7ss Excuse me? This in no way supports the nazis

[@AdamSakowicz-hs7ss]

@@Zachomq you are framing WW2/Hitler as an inevitable result of allied failure to appease Germany enough

[@dawidlijewski5105]

Danzig, a port city, without the rest of Poland is pointless. It's not a coincidence that the city went into deep economic troubles when Germany embargo Poland and in response Poles built a new port city of Gdynia nearby thus rendering Gdańsk redundant(the only issue was with the railways). And also it's not a coincidence that even German speaking residents of Danzig have risen against German Teutonic Knights in the 1400s who were blocking trade between Danzig and the rest of Poland ruining the business.

[@jgr7487]

Gdinia had already surpassed Danzig in trade in 1933. Keeping it was a point of honour for Poland.

[@anthonyberent4611]

Thank you for this. My father was born in Danzig, and as a Jewish child escaped to England on the last kindertransport from Danzig.

[@marcinterlecki6021]

What a crap. 'Polish Corridor' was inherently Polish lands for centureis, garbbed only by Prussian between 1772 and 1795. And the Freie Stad Danzig had indeed overwhelmig German population - after more than a century of forced Germanization and banning Polish language and culture. Oh - those noble German citizend of FSD created first concentration camp outside Germany - Sgutthif, operational from Sept 2nd 1939 (!!!). Lovely.

[@thomashankins9789]

No isn't the full story. Originally ofc no Germans nor Poles inhabited these lands. After establishment by the poles the Teutonic order achieved German majority in the early 1300's by massacring the polish population (a couple thousand at the time). For most of the development of this city it was German majority. (The hinterland tended to be Slavic).

[@optional-wv5rp]

>inherently polish >when? >...until 1772 Imagine being so inherently polish that you actually stop being polish for over 100 years. Spierdalaj, bro hahahaha

[@marcinterlecki6021]

@@thomashankins9789 The full story? Gdańsk had been founded and developed by Slavs/Poles for more than 320 years before the massacre of 1308, where The Order took not only the city but the whole Pomerelia. The Knights ivested in Gdańsk, no dobts, but they were squeezing money back with taxes - they were so hated that burgers rebeleld in 1410 (see Conrad Letzkau) and then in 1454, along with most of the Pomerelian and Prussian cities, requested king of Poland to incorporate the city and Pomerelia back to The Crown. The hayday of the city in XVI and XVII cc. was connected not to Hansa, which was long dead, but to the Great Baltic Grain Trade after rejoining Poland (connections with Netherlands predominantly). And same burgers were defending the city against Swedes during The Deluge, despite being also protestant. And then against Prussians (Brandenburgians really) after 1772, when Gdańsk was a Polish exclave for 21 years. You may want to check why Schoppenhauer and Tolkien families, among many, many others, left the city afterwards....

[@999mi999]

Poles always point to a specific point in time during which that territory was polish. Before it was polish or any sort of slavic, it was germanic, and tribes like the Goths, Burgundians and Vandals lived on both banks of the Vistula and beyond. I'm neither a slav or a german, i have no horses in this race, but historical fact is historical fact.

[@optional-wv5rp]

@@999mi999 Thank you for this comment. The crazy thing is, it isn't even like hidden knowledge or something, it's normie info which can even be looked up by Wikipedia.

[@DarkWolff21]

So Danzig is what inspired Novigard from the Witcher series? Interesting that means Radania is Poland and Tameria is Germany. Good to know

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

Dude Radanija has the polish coat of arms how did you not realize this?

[@DarkWolff21]

@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 cause I'm not European. How did you not realize that?

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

@@DarkWolff21 Recognising the heraldry of Poland has nothing to do with being Europian.

[@thelvadam2884]

@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 not many people are aware of that since poland was for ages a minor nation or not even a country. only now its starting to be a major power.

[@twofaceofinternet1027]

@@thelvadam2884 What are you talking about ??

[@dan_mer]

There were many Poles living in Danzig until 13 November 1308 when the Germans committed genocide against the Poles and ethnically cleansed the city.

[@nemeczek67]

The neighboring states of Poland acted as if the "true" borders werre those established during the Congrees of Vienna in 1815. Very convenient, considering that the congress followed the final Partiotion of Poland in 1795.

[@dutchafrikaner1204]

Danzig was build by Dutch traders of the Hanseatic League on the request of the Polish king. In Dutch the city used to be known as Danswijk. Poland now tries to bring its old Dutch architecture back as much as they can

[@wojstube9359]

The Tricity consists of Gdańsk, Sopot, Gdynia. Cheers.

[@ivanguara9577]

I love your videos ❤

[@metanoian965]

Danzig in the rain Just Danzig in the rain. What a wunderbar feeling It's Polish again !

[@gabrielLenart]

Gdańsk (ger. Danzig) has always been Polish, but over the centuries it was effectively Germanized by Prussia! But it is a Polish city in its antimology, founded by Polish rulers from the Piat dynasty. Unfortunately for Poland, the Germans were constantly pushing east (the so-called drnag nach osten), which meant that they were gradually pushing Poles out of the western lands, especially from Pomerania and Silesia. They took or Germanized our Polish lands, pushing us as a nation further and further east. Therefore, it is fair that the city of Gdańsk and the western lands returned to Poland. And I say this as 1/4 German, because my grandmother was ethnic German!

[@edwinsparda7622]

Reminds me of the Sudetenland and its separation from Deutschösterreich.

[@pafcio86]

It was polish most of the time in history , fact

[@user-rl3iv2jk9q]

14 Jan , 2025 : Danzig has always been part of Uruguay . The Uruguayans , with support of free and independent U.S. Citizens , free Danzig immediately after the Amican Civil ear in 1865 . U.S. Grant POTUS , declared Danzig free and independent , then floated both funds and training to bring up their National Naval Standards . Ever si ce then Danzig has been part of South Africa .

[@LookBackHistory]

That Danzig is not currently under joint Uruguayan-South African sovereignty makes a mockery of international law!

[@Ozzy08018]

What's up my Danziggas? Fun Fact: I am not a white guy pretending to be to be black. I am, in fact, a black man.

[@marmac83]

No. 👎

[@oldminecraftreup]

That isn't funny

[@Ozzy08018]

@oldminecraftreup Well I'm black so cry me a river

[@Masterchief_Tito]

​@@oldminecraftreupI laughed

[@Ozzy08018]

I am literally black. Both parents drug addicts and wannabe gangsters from Chicago. Both of them oak brown. Both unfortunately reproduced twice resulting in both me and my younger brother.

[@LexxPan]

Gdańsk was longer in Polish hands.

[@metal87power]

barely. paying tributes or taxes to the king doesnt count

[@pototo-r7b]

@@metal87power Gdańsk has been within Polish borders for 250 years longer than within German ones. What's more, at one point (in the 17th century), it was even the largest and wealthiest city in Poland

[@stcqw]

@@metal87power Gdańsk's nationality: 997-1227: Duchy/Kingdom of Poland 1227-1294: Duchy of Pomerania 1294-1308: Duchy/Kingdom of Poland 1308-1410: Kingdom of the Teutonic Order 1410-1411: Crown of the Kingdom of Poland 1411-1454: Kingdom of the Teutonic Order 1454-1569: Crown of the Kingdom of Poland 1569-1793: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland 1793-1807: Kingdom of Prussia (Germany) 1807-1814: Free City of Danzig (dependent on the French Empire) 1815-1871: Kingdom of Prussia (Germany) 1871-1918: German Empire 1918-1920: Weimar Republic (Germany) 1920-1939: Free City of Gdansk (Poland and Germany) 1939-1945: Third Reich 1945-present: Poland ================================================== Summary: - Poland: 230+ 14+ 103+ 224= 571 years - Germany: 49+ 6= 55 years - Pomerania: 67 years old - Prussia: 146+ 14+ 56= 216 years - Free City: 7+ 19= 26 years ================================================== Poland: 571 years Germany + Duchy of Pomerania + Teutonic Order (Prussia) + Free City = 364 years 571+ 78 {2023-1945}= 649 Gdansk has been within Poland for 641 years to this day and outside Poland for only 364 years. Germany should to stay behind Oder river. Most of the visited tenement houses and other buildings in the old market square in Gdańsk come from the times of the Polish Golden Age, not from German times (although the Germans also built their buildings)

[@stcqw]

@@metal87power Founded by Poland

[@sheridansherr8974]

Gedania/ Gdańsk. NOT Danzig. The fact that Germans outbreed the locals in the city, doesn't give them any rights to it. Just like with Jerusalem or Constantinople. Stolen from people who founded it.

[@KrazedHeroYT]

while i'm all for using native names, danzig was the official name of the quasi-state. joint name use is probably the best bet.

[@Jonathan.26s]

@sheridansherr8974 the Jews founded Jerusalem

[@Reichsritter]

Danzig bro, it's the English name. By 1939 more than 95% were German

[@Jonathan.26s]

Jerusalem was founded by Jews, its in the Bible

[@Jonathan.26s]

@sheridansherr8974 Jerusalem was founded by hebrews

[@grzesiekx441]

Gdańsk was polish but Auschwitz was german

[@twofaceofinternet1027]

I don't know if everyone understands the history of the founding of Prussia.

[@occam7382]

I think most people are well aware of how Prussia came to be.

[@mia-tu2hh]

​@@occam7382no really xd

[@joszi884]

I see nationalistic sentiments among some German commentators here, which seem to ignore the devastating consequences that German imperialism and nationalism once brought. Such comments are deeply disturbing and disappointing. In Poland, we too have experienced the loss of cities like Lviv and Vilnius, but most of us recognize that a revisionist approach is not the solution. These cities are no longer Polish, just as Gdańsk is no longer a Free City or a German city. We must focus on building a better future rather than dwelling on the past.

[@mr.komentarz8416]

That is why Poland should never waive war reparations for the destruction and murder of its inhabitants and should conduct a massive information campaign about the scale of the crimes for which the Germans have still not paid

[@mr.komentarz8416]

Poland should continue to demand reparations for its crimes and colonial exploitation.

[@tomas2382]

Poland lost Wilno only in theoretical case, as it was taken from Lithuania only in 1919. on a broader sense, Lithuania lost the city before to Poland and got it back with other worse consequences.

[@3chmidt]

I only see Polish keyboard warriors, that most likely live in some Soviet block, Poles don't wanna play fair, nor see history as it is. There could be compromise between Germany and Poland getting their easter territory back, but Poles simply stay neo-imperialists. Never show a Pole how the population all the way to the Vistula looked like before Poles migrated there (spoiler: it was all German)

[@joszi884]

@@tomas2382 This statement simplifies the complex history of Vilnius. During the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Vilnius was a key cultural and political center for both Poles and Lithuanians. While the city gained strong Polish influence over time, it also remained deeply connected to Lithuanian history and identity. Just like Germany’s claim over Gdańsk isn’t valid today, calling Vilnius purely Polish ignores the complex, shared history of the region. These cities, like many others in Europe, have rich multicultural legacies shaped by various peoples and nations.

[@pangandalf1529]

Gdańsk not Danzig, and that pretty much it. Thank you :)

[@twofaceofinternet1027]

The first known record of the name of the city - Gyddanyzc - dates back to 999. It is found in the First Life of Saint Adalbert (Vita prima sancti Adalberti), a work written in Rome by Ioannes Canaparius. Gyddanyzc this record comes from the Proto-Slavic name Gъdanьskъ, which can be read as Gъdańьsk. The name of our town itself most likely comes from the name of the Gdań river (the Slavic name of the modern Motława or the Siedlecki Stream

[@SofiMaraCroft]

At some point it would have been called international city of danzig

[@AntoineELismysalvation]

Almost everything easst of Elbe river is Slavic.

[@ja8252]

I have a story for the former German residents of Gdansk J had family in Warsaw, unfortunately the germans destroyed the entire capital of Poland and murdered all the inhabitants.

[@blablabla-jn8wh]

There is no problem in applying german logic today and deciding to whom Gdańsk historically belongs. We can make votes today certainly today 99% of the inhabitants would say that it belongs to Poland, so applying german logic Poland has 99% of the historical rights to this city.

[@johndisko7650]

Gdansk was established by Poles therefore is polish. Germany is just an imperialistic country as proven throughout the history.

[@varnavaszorpas9160]

America, Germany, Poland, Austria, Australia, India, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and the whole world is Greek! Greece is everywhere! Got it?

[@toja8824]

Can you name me a state built by the Templars from France that is still recognized today and their territorial achievements in the fight against the infidels ??? The only difference between the French Templars who were burned at the stake in France is that Poland defeated the German Templars Teuronic Knights but did not burn them at the stake in the same way like France ( similar inhabitants of Gdańsk who were settled by the Teutonic Knights ) result of that were later problems with Prussia and Gdańsk which lay at the mouth of the main river of Poland

[@MattKucia]

Poland used to be a very multicultural political organisation. Danzig was a German-speaking Baltic city. There was no problem with being both Polish and German-speaking just like Polish-Jewish, Polish-Lithuanian, Polish-Tatar Muslim and so on. Were there tensions? Sure! Just look at the current state of affairs in the US... History repeats itself with the rise of Polish-Ukrainian, Polish-Bielarusan and Polish-Vietnamese being more relevant than ever.

[@Obornicki123]

Poland population is 96.9% polish. It's the most unitarity country in europe

[@chlopakzpolski]

Gdansk is orginal and first name of the city. Danzing is dance event with disco music popular among elder ppl in PL.

[@sheridansherr8974]

If after 100 years 90% of inhabitants of Berlin are Turkish, does it mean Berlin should belong to Turkey?? Same with Gedania/ Gdansk. Question like with Jerusalem: who has the right to it? People who originally founded the city or descendants of people who conquered the city??

[@szymeq.haizaki4898]

Jews founded the city and are living there now. Palestinians are Arabs, with mythology.

[@kikolandzik]

yes it should belong to turkey

[@danielbishop1863]

Turks are originally from Central Asia, and migrated to Anatolia during the Middle Ages. But nobody is arguing for Turks to "go back home" today.

[@romankrzyzewski9302]

Ostatnim razem, po dyskusji czy Gdańsk powinien być niemiecki, zginęło 60 milionów ludzi w tym miliony Niemców, niemieckie miasta wygladały jak pocztówki z Marsa, Niemcy straciły część terytorium, zostały podzielone i do dziś są niesuwerenne. Naprawde warto było?

[@andrzejkowalski4021]

1:23 Starting from the middle ages until middle 19 century every city in the central Europe: Poland , Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Transylvania , Baltics , Halicia was inhabited mostly by Germans. So by using this argument all cities in those countries could be claimed by Germany.

[@mr.komentarz8416]

Since the Middle Ages in germany was the plan colonization of these areas and the peoples of these countries were considered something worse

[@mr.komentarz8416]

Nobility belonged to those countries, it's more about the fact that bourgeoisie and cities developed faster in Germany, so in some cities and some periods the Germans may have dominated, but it was not so everywhere and always. In Gdańsk itself, Poles also dominated until the partitions.

[@danielbishop1863]

Well, Germany *did* claim most of those places for a while during WW2...

[@mr.komentarz8416]

There was no concept of nationalism in the Middle Ages, therefore migrations from that time cannot be related to today nationalism.

[@mr.komentarz8416]

@ German nationalism tried to justify its own colonialism with similar migrations from the Middle Ages

[@Occident.]

Danzig in 1939 was 96% German. This is a historical fact many deny to this day.

[@mark-howgh]

Today it's 100% Polish, and let it stay until the end of the world, or even a day after it.

[@AntoineELismysalvation]

And in 1795?, exactly.

[@lumpek4149]

in 1000 it was 100% Polish...

[@merlinxpyt]

Berlin in 1000 was 99% Slavic.

[@paweprominski1180]

ITS GDAŃSK NOT danzig

[@felixjohnsens3201]

No it is Danzig

[@GaikowskizeŚląska]

@@felixjohnsens3201 What about Upper Silesia Poznań Bydgoszcz and Toruń? Is more Polish than German

[@barteksz932]

@@felixjohnsens3201 Magdeburgistan is Saudi Arabian and Berlinistan is Turkish

[@felixjohnsens3201]

@@barteksz932 Never heard of such cities. If you want to point out the migrant communities, then just think about how Germany also had once 6 Million Jews...

[@felixjohnsens3201]

@GaikowskizeŚląska In Silesia the Poles were migrants. Native Silesians are not Poles. The other Regions were rightfully Polish. And if Poland did not take German majority regions, then Hitler would have never come to power...

[@Kommentator1000]

Ein sehr interessanter Beitrag. Der Vater meines Nachbarn ist aus Danzig gewesen. Seine Enkel haben die Stadt just besucht und sein Elternhaus gefunden.

[@pz9mo1221]

in danzig Rudolf Spanner made soap out human fat

[@mia-tu2hh]

100% Polish and Kashubian

[@annasepula9812]

@@mia-tu2hh Kashubian is still Polish

[@szymeq.haizaki4898]

​​@@annasepula9812 Muslims will never be a Poles. I am a Christian Pole.

[@Reichsritter]

more like 2% in 1939 lol

[@nrw64]

My grandmother married a German fighter pilot and was from Danzig (she was born in 1922). Most people were in favor of landing in Germany, since most of them were German anyway And Poland had long since disappeared. Many people did not like Poland. Her father (My great-grandfather )was stabbed to death by a group of Polish nationalists after the First World War. Because they raided his farm. She was happy when the Schleswig Holstein arrived And thought that the whole thing would finally come to an end through the German intervention. After the war, she fled to Schleswig Holstein (St. Michaelersdon). The fighter pilot did not survive and fell over the Ruhr area. I have a 100 Danzig gulden note hanging above my head which she kept. It was a German city, with Germans. Nobody wanted to end up there in Poland. There was a kind of regional patriotism there and they were very proud of their Hanseatic past. There was a prisoner of war camp in Danzig with French people. She felt sorry for them. She gave them bread when she was pregnant. The SS guards almost shot her for it. Many of her family members died while fleeing. After the war she remarried a miner, my grandfather. This reminds me a bit of the Kosovo crisis.

[@blablabla-jn8wh]

Gdańsk was one of the most Nazi cities where the NSDP had great popularity

[@blablabla-jn8wh]

Prussia itself, fueled by german nationalism, had always totally racist attitude towards Poland for sure .

[@blablabla-jn8wh]

Prussia itself, the descendants of the Teutonic Knights, was built from the beginning on racist foundations, where religious fanatics of teutonic order, who could only be ethnic Germans, exterminated for religious purposes other tribes

[@nrw64]

​​@@blablabla-jn8wh Maybe. But Poland was not only a victim, but also a perpetrator. Danzig may have been founded by a Pole, but Prussia made the city rich and left its mark on it. That's like giving Cologne back to the Romans (or Italians?) because it was founded by Roman legionaries. I think the Kosovo comparison is apt. Kosovo wants to be part of Albania because of its population, but Serbia wants it for itself for historical reasons.

[@blablabla-jn8wh]

You left out a small detail, . Poland disappeared as a result of German racismm and colonialism and because Prussia and other countries occupied Polish territories by force of arms and then persecuted Poles, took their property, etc.

[@twofaceofinternet1027]

Gdansk was founded by the Polish king Mieszko. The state of Prussia was created by the German Templars who received this land as their property from the Pope if they christianized the Baltic tribes in Prussia, which ended with the extermination of the natives living on these lands.

[@marmac83]

Assimilation

[@goblinslaya7328]

the natives were not exterminated 🤣🤣🤣

[@twofaceofinternet1027]

They were exterminated from the original Prussian tribes who were Balts, few remained and these lands were colonized.

[@twofaceofinternet1027]

The Teutonic Order even organized an annual safari to which they invited knights from all over Europe, where they hunted infidels as a sport.

[@hivonzoooPL]

​@goblinslaya7328teutonic order olso exterminated Gdańsk citizens when they participated in war on the Polish side.

[@kurczeblade140]

On what basis would a city at the mouth of a Polish river and living off trade produced in Poland shoud be annexed to Germany ???

[@magdaty1815]

Because Germans like giving things to Russia and to give things to Russia they have to steal them first.

[@AlexanderLüder]

@@kurczeblade140 Danzig muss nicht an Deutschland angegliedert werden. Es ist eine deutsche Stadt mit polnischem Einfluss. Es lebten überwiegend Deutsche mit der polnischen Minderheit friedlich zusammen,bis Hass und Hetze diese friedliche Koexistenz zerstörten. Deutschland hat damit Schuld auf sich geladen. Polen mit anschließender Enteignung und Vertreibung nicht weniger. Nach internationalen Völkerrecht ist Danzig eine freie deutsche Stadt unter polnischer Besatzung. Es sollte für alle auf der Welt eine Warnung sein, dass Hass und Hetze nur zu Leid und Verlust führt.

[@danielbishop1863]

Because the overwhelming majority of the city's population at the time were Germans and wanted to be part of Germany.

[@stephanschneeberger3242]

The city's name actually suggests that it was founded ore under danish rule by at som point

[@owcelot2877]

It is one of the possible origins of the word, Danz-Wyck would mean "headed towards danes" but the most widely accepted theory is that it is named after a Old-Slavic name for the river nearby. Nevertheless it is a word of Slavic origin. It was Polish prince who created the city. Also German name Danzig came from Gdańsk, not the other way around :>

[@B1son]

2:01 damn why Italy so…

[@kevinriehl5906]

Danzig was in The Misfits first.

[@thatweirdguyfromtheinterne9002]

Gdańsk goodest

[@rav456k]

Gdansk jest Polski na zawsze.

[@EdwardRiverson]

it should've been mine, but i wasn't born yet

[@Ciech_mate]

Polish

[@lostininternet3611]

In medival times knightly orders were popular and the rulers rented sometimes factories, e.g. to the Templars, etc., but none of these orders came up with the idea of ​​building their own state, only a German order came up with it where you could only become a member if you were German i such way teutonic order they took the city Gdańsk as a strategic one later etc .

[@MrTohawk]

The Free City of Danzig still has a Government in Exile btw. After all it was illegally annexed by Germany so after the war should've regained its independence but was, again illegally, annexed by Poland/the Soviet puppet state.

[@toja8824]

Rather Prussia was a German puppet state becouse there was never such a thing as a Prussian nation

[@toja8824]

Gdański was founded by the King of Poland Mieszko . In the Second World War Gdańsk was also completely destroyed and it was the Poles who rebuilt it.

[@toja8824]

There was never such a thing as the nation of Prussia, just as there was never such a thing as the nation of Gdańsk . There was no such thing as the free city of Gdańsk too .

[@toja8824]

The Teutonic Knights murdered the inhabitants of Gdańsk who were Polish and in this way they always tried to control Gdańsk in order to strangle the Polish economy imposing customs duties

[@twofaceofinternet1027]

The Free City of Gdańsk would result in the Commonwealth defeating the Teutonic Knights but not committing ethnic cleansing as the Germans like , allowing Gdańsk to function with a German population.

[@dozyproductionss]

It's Gdansk.

[@shadowfoxxie7182]

imo it should have been part of germany, but i think its reasonable why they gave it to poland. given that without it, Polands only port would be Gydnia

[@Konrad.novak668]

Make poland german again ?

[@marlonherr8013]

My Great Grandpa was from Danzig

[@voiceofreason2674]

Prolly got something to do with Napoleon

[@mateuszczop2363]

Before WW2 all land in my neighborhood was owned by a single German farmer, I live near former Danzig-German(East Prussian) border.

[@LookBackHistory]

Very cool information. Out of curiosity, how much "German-ness" do you think still exists in that area?

[@mateuszczop2363]

There are old German floodgates still in use and German Empire created entire new Vistula river mouth to prevent floodings. Other than that there were only farm fields here before the war.

[@thelvadam2884]

@@mateuszczop2363 i know my grandpa comes from Danzig, he also was born there ... only left once the red army came... my family then settled in east germany. i know what germany did in ww2 was horrible, but the soviets were just as bad and also displaced millions of people and murdered also millions. tldr ... my original family home town was Danzig, yet i can never really call it my home while living in germany, but i plan to visit it one day the old home and i am also learning polish !

[@toja8824]

@@LookBackHistory What Germanism??? There has never been any Germanism in Poland

[@toja8824]

@@LookBackHistory Poland is generally quite mono-ethnic and there is no Germanism in Poland . Polish culture and its national identity do not even have a gram of Germanness too

[@tonyu5985]

Gdansk Lechistan (Lehistan).

[@twofaceofinternet1027]

First learn how Prussia really came into being, the Pope gave these lands to the German Templars for colonizing the Baltic tribes living there which ended with their extermination

[@TheAdrianbbc]

@@twofaceofinternet1027 and Teutonic Order after conquering Danzig from Poland in 1308 they slaughtered the Polish majority and resettle the city with Germans. The Germans were the majority of the city's inhabitants until WW II

[@twofaceofinternet1027]

@@TheAdrianbbc They were the majority because when the Poland won with the Teutonic Order and Prussia became part of Poland, the Poles did not do the same with Gdańsk and did not murder its inhabitants

[@molly2364]

thats true

[@twofaceofinternet1027]

in 1410, after the defeat of the Teutonic Knights, Gdańsk was again within the borders of Poland, but the Poles did not commit ethnic cleansing.

[@twofaceofinternet1027]

Poles did not perform ethnic cleansing, therefore Germans managed to create the majority of the population there. Historically, however, Gdańsk was within the borders of Poland for most of its history longer then longer than any other country.

[@wilkomirgrey9889]

France had its own Templar order with red cross while the Germans had their own copy of that order, the Teutonic Order with black cross which was founded in Palestine and was a copy of the Templar order and it was they who actually caused Gdansk to fall into the hands of the Germans.

[@MarkreplierR-zv5nj]

Gdansk shall remain gdansk

[@metal87power]

during most of the history Danzig was independent. danzig as other medieval cities was relatively self-governing. it didnt have time to become proper Poland territory because Poland was partitioned before it could make a complete transition into modern society so cities or city people had their own seperate culture

[@pannick6844]

They had such culture that they voted for Hitler

[@pannick6844]

The Gdańsk political scene in the interwar period was in many ways similar to the political scene in Germany at the time. The four most important parties were, to a greater or lesser extent, connected with their counterparts in the Weimar Republic.

[@pannick6844]

In 1772, the city was still mostly inhabited by Poles. After that date, being a Pole in Gdańsk no longer made sense. If someone wanted to develop, they had to speak german and as a Pole you could not develop and you was persecuted .

[@pannick6844]

In the interwar period it was a strongly Nazi city. On April 7, 1935, the elections to the Volkstag, or parliament of the Free City of Gdańsk, were won by the local NSDAP cell.

[@Adixeeel]

child ....paid taxes participated in the king's elections fought on the side of Poland even during the partitions the mayor resigned from his position When the city was stolen by Prussia it was a Polish port on the Vistula the city itself wanted to be incorporated into Poland it was incorporated do you want to discuss more Germans like to write new history as they wrote it always have to remind themselves that Germans that Berlin is only 800 years old and it is also not a German name

[@AML-FRL]

💥

[@siyacer]

idk

[@johnmartin2502]

When Tucker Carlson interviewed Putin he stated that WW2 was Poland's fault for not negotiating with Hitler over Danzig. Don't have a dog in that fight but it's an interesting perspective.

[@freeeagle7464]

It was a wink to the Nazis in Germany and their propaganda. Putin himself is doing the same in Ukraine and is trying to cut Ukraine off from the sea by occupying Odessa exactly as the Nazis tried to do with Poland and Gdańsk .

[@rafamieczkowski9913]

Did Ukraine's peaceful surrender of Crimea to Putin in 2014 prevent the outbreak of war? Did the peaceful surrender of the Sudetenland to Hitler prevent the liquidation of Czechoslovakia and the outbreak of World War II a year later? Regardless of how Poland would have acted with Gdansk in 1939, war was inevitable anyway.

[@owcelot2877]

It's like saying ww1 wouldn't happen if one austrian dude wasn't shot

[@Remington510]

It's not. It seems interesting if you know little on the matter. In reality, Germany never even delivered "Danzig or war" ultimatum to the Poles. Moreover, Poland did try, despite its best judgement, to appease Germans as long as possible. They've withheld their call to arms on request of UK, France and the rest of the gang for so long, that they stared mobilizing 2 days before the war... All that in order not to bring in more tension to a situation they've been sensing for the past 20 years... Even building their own port in Gdynia and making it the primary port so they don't have to rely on the one in Danzig. 2 DAYS vs 20 YEARS. Tell me more about "not being flexible enough" argument. Ukraine 2014 and 2022 is like a freaking déjà vu for Poland. If one madman wants to attack, he will, sooner or later.

[@AdamSakowicz-hs7ss]

Lmao a cursory glimpse at Hitler's ideology including basics like Mein Kampf showed that he wanted everything up to the Urals to be conquered and ethnically cleansed. This is not a debate it is right wing ignorance and delusion

[@NeveroOn]

Danzig is German. Or was. At least it is not Arabic.

[@ja8252]

It was invasion of German Isis on the mouth of the Polish river in order to control its mouth because rivers in the Middle Ages were the main transport highways.

[@Radowid]

This video is bad created. You should start from the beginning but you prefred o start from 2 half of whole period history. SHAME.

[@stcqw]

Gdańsk's nationality: 997-1227: Duchy/Kingdom of Poland 1227-1294: Duchy of Pomerania 1294-1308: Duchy/Kingdom of Poland 1308-1410: Kingdom of the Teutonic Order 1410-1411: Crown of the Kingdom of Poland 1411-1454: Kingdom of the Teutonic Order 1454-1569: Crown of the Kingdom of Poland 1569-1793: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland 1793-1807: Kingdom of Prussia (Germany) 1807-1814: Free City of Danzig (dependent on the French Empire) 1815-1871: Kingdom of Prussia (Germany) 1871-1918: German Empire 1918-1920: Weimar Republic (Germany) 1920-1939: Free City of Gdansk (Poland and Germany) 1939-1945: Third Reich 1945-present: Poland ================================================== Summary: - Poland: 230+ 14+ 103+ 224= 571 years - Germany: 49+ 6= 55 years - Pomerania: 67 years old - Prussia: 146+ 14+ 56= 216 years - Free City: 7+ 19= 26 years ================================================== Poland: 571 years Germany + Duchy of Pomerania + Teutonic Order (Prussia) + Free City = 364 years 571+ 78 {2023-1945}= 649 Gdansk has been within Poland for 641 years to this day and outside Poland for only 364 years. Germany should to stay behind Oder river. Most of the visited tenement houses and other buildings in the old market square in Gdańsk come from the times of the Polish Golden Age, not from German times (although the Germans also built their buildings)

[@TBrst]

Stop making these videos. It's Gdańsk not Danzig and the city was 2x longer Polish than German, was built by a Polish king and will remain Polish on maps even if they will be the last maps humanity draws. Thank you.

[@albertkowalski5629]

Stop calling it Danzig. It is Gdańsk. The name Danzig is used only by German speaking countries.

[@petegrusky2715]

Gdańsk, German? When?😂

[@lisamirako1073]

Danzig has existed as an uninterrupted merchant and port city only since the second half of the 12th century and had an almost exclusively German population from this very beginning up to 1945, even in times when the city was voluntarily part of the Polish-Lithuanian Union or its predecessors. However, this was not a nation state at the time, but a multinational state. The people of Danzig therefore did not have to give up their German nationality and enjoyed a high degree of independence despite belonging to the Polish crown. Poland, which was re-established after the First World War, was a deeply nationalistic state that treated the German population that had been annexed to it very badly and deliberately expelled them. Therefore, the assignment of Danzig and its surrounding area to Poland as an area almost exclusively inhabited by Germans would have been just as problematic as the assignment of the purely German areas of Bohemia and Moravia (Sudetenland) to the newly established Czechoslovakia. The “Free State Compromise” satisfied neither Germany nor Poland and was one of the main reasons for the enmity between the two states after the First World War. In historical retrospect, it was the wrong decision!

[@mieszeksmieszek6726]

First of all, it's not true that only Germans poplation lived there. Secondly, what are you trying to prove such way ? Do you want to prove that even when Gdańsk was part of Poland, the German residents were not repressed, unlike when it belonged to the Teutonic Knights or Prussia?

[@mieszeksmieszek6726]

The Germans conducted a rather colonial policy in these areas.

[@mecx7322]

In XV and XVI century Gdansk was a real multinational city. Germans were already a dominating majority but there were numerous immigrants from Netherlands, Scotland, and so on. Old town architecture is not German, but Dutch, based on Amsterdam and Utrecht. Germany was trying to strangle Poland after it gained independence by limiting access to the port and imposing tariffs. Poland built new, huge port in Gdynia ( and a railway line from central Poland ) which soon became largest in the Baltic sea and won the trade war with Germany. Today Gdansk is again the largest port in the Baltic and its Baltic Hub container terminal is rapidly expanding, serving largest ships in the world ( 24000 TEU ).

[@twofaceofinternet1027]

Gdańsk was founded by the King of Poland. Prussia ended up in German hands because the Pope promised the Teutonic Knights who were a copy of the Templars that he would give them the lands of the Baltic tribes in Prussia as their property if they converted them, which ended in the total extermination of the native population.

[@KedAR_48]

The Teutons were invited rather by duke Konrad I of Masovia as a semi-vassal meant to indeed christianuse the Prussians. The Order later fabricated a doccument, which basically made them sovereign from Masovia and under HRE's protection. I see no reason to make 4 separate comments under this video in which you try to explain the history of Prussia. Gdansk was not made a settlement by Mieszko, who also wasn't the first king of Poland, he was a duke (you make that mistake in other comments). Mieszko only conquered the settlement, which was created long before by the Wwst-Slavic tribes of Pomeranians. As for its status, Gdansk became a city only in 1263.

[@twofaceofinternet1027]

What mistake am I making??? You yourself confirm that it was a settlement of East Slavic tribes of Pomeranians that Mieszko united under his rule first time .

[@twofaceofinternet1027]

I know that Konrad Mazowiecki invited the Teutonic Knights because the Prussian tribes were destroying and plundering his property, but he leased the land them and he was cheated because the Teutonic Knights at that time made an agreement with the Pope to own this land as they christianized it and colonize

[@twofaceofinternet1027]

You yourself confirmed that Gdańsk was a Slavic settlement.

[@twofaceofinternet1027]

The Teutonic Knights exterminated the indigenous population and created a church state with expansionist ambitions in its place there .

[@poganka45]

And why were there germans in Gdańsk? Answer: The city of Danzig (Gdańsk) was captured by the State of the Teutonic Order on 13 November 1308, resulting in a massacre of its inhabitants (up to 10 000 poles). The event is also known as Gdańsk massacre or Gdańsk slaughter

[@PMKotla]

This film veers off the right course already in the 20th second. You should have started the narrative from a clear and true statement that in modern times and before 1918 Gdańsk (not Danzig) was outside of independent Poland for only TWO YEARS!!! Between 1793 and 1795. It is more Polish than Warsaw, since it became part of Poland for the first time in 997 and Warsaw - in 1525. Saying that Gdansk should have remained German is like saying that Athens should have remained Turkish.

[@rpinter677]

German Prussians built most of the city. It was a beautiful city until WW2 destruction.

[@deadchannelxd0420]

you should have spent more time talking about Napoleonic free city of Danzig. Along with the fact that Poland in the 1920s was an irridentist power that wished to annex danzig, parts of eastern germany, slovkia, ukrinae, belarus, the batlics and part of Romanina.

[@pankasztan69]

this guy i so germany-centered i couldn't stand watching this. he calls these lands by german names although it's almost 80 years after the war and talks about poles like they were the invaders. enormous lack of understanding and empathy, typical for for people who don't know what they're talking about.

[@MateuszKiwalczyk666]

It should have been given to Dennmark. I mean just look at the name: Gdansk G DANSK

[@C2112-s7y]

Gdańsk not Danzig !!!

[@twofaceofinternet1027]

Prussia was the land of the Baltic tribes and the Pope gave ownership of this land to the Teutonic Order which was a German copy of the Templars on the condition that these tribes would christianize which ended with the extermination of these tribes

[@89alcatraz89]

it's Gdańsk

[@3chmidt]

The city was majority German, and would have voted to join Germany over Poland. In my opinion, since Poland already gained territory from Lithuania, they should have gained access to the sea through Lithuania, splitting Germany in 2 just called for trouble. The Entente didn't care that Hungary lost access to the sea either. Germany should have gotten the way France did after Napoleon. A fair peace would have been Germany keeping Schleswig after Denmark broke the treaty of London, splitting Lothringen to France while Germany keeps Elsaß as compromise and to keep peace, and at most splitting up Posen between Germany and Poland, since Posen had a big German population in the West, and the rest like Memel staying German. There, I made peace treaty better than all of 3 nations could do combined. It truly was the peace to end all peace. But looking at the comments, Poland could have stayed non existing between Russia and Germany for those Polish keyboard warriors

[@GaikowskizeŚląska]

What about Upper Silesia and Bydgoszcz Toruń for me is definitely Polish

[@Radowid]

Wake Up! You pooped yourself! Write with facts, not with your opinion. Gemans were agresive nation from medieval centuries. Gdańsk had been stolen by Teutons betrayal, where was done a deal between polish side and Teutonic Oder to rescue it from Brandenburg. Also Poznań or Wrocław, from the begining of their history, was never german cities but slavic. Don't you wonder why this has changed over so many centuries? When Poland wasn't on the map, Germany forced Germanization on Poles what made more things harder to make. starting from living normal live or speaking/writing polish language. Germans was always greedy and wanted to have more and more. Luckily, with changing times and german's politicians greedy and bad decisions, everything have changed and border between Poland and German is located in good place. Now we can only live with peace and cooperate together to make our lives better.

[@3chmidt]

@GaikowskizeŚląska no idea what the 2nd one is and Silesia should stay united, not everything gotta be Ethnically homogenous, it's like if the on piece of territory between Maldovia and East Galicia should be Polish or Romanian.

[@GaikowskizeŚląska]

@3chmidt so what else would you give us Sir because I don’t know?

[@blablabla-jn8wh]

The Germans have no rights to Gdansk. The fact that this city had a larger population is only because Poles were persecuted in this city and you cant develop and make career as a Pole

[@Magnuspedites]

Gdańsk was, is and will be POLISH

[@thelvadam2884]

it was polish long ago ,then was german for a very long time and now is polish again even if the why that was done was very much a crime against humanity aka deportation.

[@arkonnKeb]

Me when i tell missiformation online

[@karp8350]

@@thelvadam2884 Gdańsk/Danzig was founded by and under Control of Poland for the majority of its history, and most of its time as German city was due to partition of Poland and second world war which were both depending on how you see it annexation.

[@thelvadam2884]

@@karp8350 Danzig was mostly settled by germans from the 13 century onwards.

[@nathan9523]

@@thelvadam2884 this is cap

[@Paulftate]

America 1st ... maga baby maga 👍