(May 28, 2014 at 6:42 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(May 28, 2014 at 6:22 pm)Artur Axmann Wrote: What folLows this , And I didn't intend for it ,is how a dispute between two countries[poland and gemany] over the status of a city[Danzig and the upper silesia region] stolen from germany was blown out of proportion and allowed to become a world war.
Those who pushed for a major war ,benefitted the most.
Suggesting that Gdansk/Danzig was 'stolen from Germany' ignores damn near a millennium of history prior to the annexation of Gdansk by Prussia in 1793.
German speaking Danzig speaks for itself.