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Danzig is a German name for a city of Gdansk. Gdansk is located in the northern Poland.
Gdansk is the Polish port & city also known as Danzig.
Danzig
Gdansk, Poland
Gdasnk. The name change came when Danzig/Gdansk was given to Poland.
The German (and technically English) name for "Gdansk" is "Danzig".After World War 2, Eastern Germany including Danzig were granted to Poland and all German civilians were exiled or murdered, and the city was renamed to Gdansk with Polish civilians moved into the city.
Gdansk, or as we know it, Danzig lies on Poland's coast.
In Polish, Danzig is called Gdańsk, although the name Danzig is still often preferred in foreign languages, probably due to its pronunciation/spelling being easier for foreigners.
Erich Will was born in 1931, in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland].
Gertrud de Lalsky was born on January 27, 1878, in Danzig, Pomerania, Germany [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland].
No. Prior to World War 1, the area that Gdansk and Gdynia are in were part of the German Empire. Post-World War 1, Pomerelia, where Gdynia is, became part of Poland, and Danzig/Gdansk became a Free City with a German population. The German government of Danzig refused to allows Poles to use the port freely, hence they built Gdynia.
Danzig, now called Gdansk, is in Poland. The Polish Corridor separated Germany from East Prussia.