ABSTRACT
Danzig Danzig, today the Polish city of Gdansk, was es tablished as a free state after World War I under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles (q.v.). It was placed directly under the supervision of the League of Nations (q.v.). The city had 408,000 inhabitants, 12,000 of whom were Poles. The foreign affairs and the defense policy of the free state lay in the hands of the government of newly reestablished Poland. Danzig sat at the end of what became known as the “Polish Corridor,” a strip of formerly German land given to Poland for access to the sea. The Polish Corridor cut East Prussia off from West Prussia and the rest of Germany. The Polish gov ernment also controlled the harbor of Danzig and had custom rights and access to the mouth of the Weichsel River.
