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| | K- 561 | | | | RETURN OF DANZIG TO THE REICH
| | | | 1939, Cast Bronze Commemorative Medallion, 102.9mm., 252.70g., Rim-punch, K•GœTz. | | | | Obverse: Ship with full sails above City seal with the inscription ”Home-coming of the Hanseatic city of Danzig September 1, 1939.”
| | | | Reverse: German soldier 'rescues' personified Danzig with swastika left and City seal right. Inscription reads “Liberated from the disgrace of Versailles.”
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| | Hitler's demand for Danzig was the chief cause for World War II. This city became a member of the Hanseatic League in the thirteenth century and after an eventful change in ownerships, belonged to Prussia from 1814 to 1919. After World War I it was made a Free City under supervision of the League of Nations. It was annexed by Germany on September 1, 1939 and lost to Russia in 1945.
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