In November 1941, it became a security police holding center for political prisoners and persons accused of violating labor discipline. Originally, Stutthof was a civilian internment camp under the Danzig police chief. In September 1939, the Germans constructed the Stutthof camp in a wooded area west of Stutthof, a town about 22 miles east of Danzig. Germany annexed most of western Poland and Danzig. With that, the German invasion of Poland became World War II.ĭanzig Within weeks the Poles surrendered. Britain and France declared war on Germany on September 3.
Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. They therefore guaranteed the integrity of Polish territory against German aggression.
In preparation for war with Poland, in the spring of 1939 Hitler demanded the annexation of the Free City of Danzig to Germany and extraterritorial rail access for Germany across the "Polish Corridor," the Polish frontier to East Prussia.īritain and France were convinced by the German occupation of Bohemia and Moravia in March 1939 (in violation of the 1938 Munich Pact) that Hitler could not be trusted to negotiate in good faith. Hitler was determined to overturn the military and territorial provisions of the Versailles treaty and include ethnic Germans in the Reich.
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