Rabbis and communal officials who were permanently employed by congregations in the Free State of Danzig will in the future be entitled to pension payments on the same basis as their colleagues from ...

After World War I, Danzig was named a "Free City" and was put under the protection of the League of Nations in the Treaty of Versailles, stripping it from German control. With its strategic port on ...

The proud old Hanseatic City of Danzig and its small surrounding hinterland worked and played last week so normally that uninformed visitors could scarcely have guessed what international storms were ...

When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, every patriotic young German eagerly looked to the day when Germany would eliminate the Polish Corridor which joins Poland to the Baltic and separates the flat ...

Aug. 27 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1859, the first successful oil well in the United States was drilled near Titusville, Pa. In 1883, the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded history ...