[ noun ] a port city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea; a member of the Hanseatic League in the 14th century <noun.location>
In late August 1939, Danzig was already filled with Nazi troops, swastikas flew from buildings and young Polish men avoided the streets for fear of being arrested, recalled Brunon Zwarra, a 70-year-old businessman who has written two books on the period.
Richard J. Danzig, a Washington-based attorney, was named a director of this maker of computer chips, increasing board membership to eight.
Danzig, whose Prussian, Polish and indigenous Kashub inhabitants created a unique micro-culture immortalised in The Tin Drum and other novels by Gunther Grass, was lovingly rebuilt and reborn as Gdansk.
The German government of the 1920s and Adolf Hitler's regime of the 1930s agitated to get Danzig and to recover its "historic lands" in the corridor.
Under the Versailles agreement, Danzig and the territory around it was to be an independent buffer between Poland's newly created corridor to the Baltic Sea and German-ruled East Prussia.
At the same time, the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein, on a "courtesy visit" to Danzig, trained its heavy guns on a 182-man Polish army garrison stationed on the Westerplatte peninsula in the city's port area and started firing.