10 January 1920: The Free City of Danzig was established—Wilson's Fourteen Points had promised both secure Polish access to the sea (solution: give Danzig to Poland) & national self-determination (problem: Danzig was 95% German); the Free City compromise alienated everyone, both Danzig's urban Germans—by severing them from Germany—& rural Poles—by denying them the new Poland.
Lest we forget.
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