Gdansk aka Danzig was already controlled by the Nazi Party by 1937. It was a "free city" that was not officially part of Poland.

The idea that Germans in a city which the Nazi Party already controlled were being "massacred" by the Poles is absurd.

The Hitlerian propaganda of genocide was just a pretext to invade.

@redideologies

Jewish Supremacists: "We're the chosen people! The rest are goyim slaves who must serve us!"

National Socialists: "Nordics are the master race! The rest are untermenschen slaves who must serve us!"

Hitler basically coopted Judaism and retro-fitted it for "Nordics" just like the Christian Identity schizos say NW Euros are "the real Israelites".

It all fits like a glove.

"As for the ridiculous hundred million Slavs, we will mold the best of them as we see fit, and we will isolate the rest of them in their pig-styes; and anyone who talks about cherishing the local inhabitants and civilizing them, goes straight off into a concentration camp!"

- Adolf Hitler, from Hitler's Table Talk 1941–1944: Secret Conversations. Enigma Books. p. 466.

Source: Monologe im Führerhauptquartier 1941–1944: Die Aufzeichnungen Heinrich Heims, ed. Werner Jochmann

> "We [i.e. Germans] want to settle the south of Ukraine, the Crimea in particular, exclusively German. It is no trouble for me to push the population there [i.e. population in south of Ukraine] elsewhere."

> "The [Eastern] region must lose the character of the Asiatic steppe and become Europeanised! To this end, we are now building the great transport routes to the southern tip of the Crimea, to the Caucasus; the German cities are lined up along these transport routes, like a string of pearls, and around them lies the German settlement. We will have the two or three million people we need for this sooner than we think; WE WILL TAKE THEM FROM GERMANY, THE SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES, THE WESTERN COUNTRIES AND AMERICA. I will probably not live to see it, but in twenty years the [Eastern] area [which was previously occupied by Slavs] will already contain 20 million [Germanic] people. In three hundred years it will be a flourishing park landscape of unusual beauty!
The natives [i.e. Ukrainians]? We will proceed to sift them. We'll put the destructive Jew out altogether. The impression I had in the Belorussian region was better than that in the Ukraine. We won't go into the Russian cities, they must die out completely. We don't need to feel any remorse. We don't live ourselves into the role of nanny, we have no obligation to the people at all. Reform the home, catch the lice, German teachers, newspapers? No! We'd rather set up a radio station that depends on us, and for the rest they should only know the road signs so that they don't run into our cars! By freedom these people mean that they only have to wash themselves every festival. If we come with soft soap, we won't get any sympathy. We have to completely retrain ourselves. There is only one task: to carry out a GERMANISATION BY BRINGING IN THE GERMANS AND TO REGARD THE NATIVES AS INDIANS. If these people had triumphed over us, God have mercy! Hatred? No, we don't know that; we only act out of consideration. But they act out of the inferiority complex of the inferior; they smell the superior and connect hatred with the inferiority complex. Intelligence? We have so much of it here that we only have difficulties with it! Anyone from Europe who is of good will can take part in the work of settlement."



> "The German farmer has the urge to get on, he thinks of his children; but a Ukrainian farmer will not act according to the imperative of duty."

> "The Slavic peoples, on the other hand, are not destined for a life of their own. They know that, and we must not persuade them that they can do the same. We created the Baltic countries and Ukraine in 1918. But today we have no interest in the continued existence of the Eastern Baltic states and a free Ukraine [i.e independent Ukraine]. Rechristianisation would be the biggest mistake, because that would be reorganisation. I am also not in favour of a university in Kiev. We better not teach them to read. They don't love us at all if we torture them with schools; it would be wrong even to put them on a locomotive. We also have no reason to start redistributing the land. But the natives will live far better in the future than they do now. We will find in them the people to work the soil that we are lacking today."

World War II had nothing to do with "economics" or imposing some econ system on Germany.

Britain's socialist labour party supported the war against Hitler and promptly nationalized 20% of British industry after the war, nationalized the central bank and implemented a welfare state. The Soviets got the eastern half of Germany and turned it fully socialist.

Roosevelt was no "capitalist" he was a closeted commie who was praised by the fascists as a fellow socialist before he became their enemy.

@MartinezPolitix

The South Tyrol Option Agreement shows the duplicity of Hitler on the question of German diaspora. He used the Danzig question as a beating stick against Poland and offered no deal to have those Germans move back to Germany peacefully, but he accepted such an agreement with the Italians who had been attempting to Italianize the German speakers in South Tyrol. Nor did he accuse the Italians of "genocide" like he did the Poles despite the Italians putting similar pressures on them to assimilate.

The reason was that Hitler wanted the Danzig Germans as a Trojan Horse inside Poland that he could use to make more territorial demands against Poland.

He could have easily invited them to move back to Germany like he did with those in South Tyrol but he did not because they were more useful as a hedge against Poland to kickstart the Lebensraum process.

@redideologies

In 1920 German dock workers in the free city of Danzig (under League of Nations control) went on strike to prevent Western aid in the form of weapons from getting to the Polish army fighting the Soviets in the east.

That's why Poland decided to build up the port of Gdynia so that these ethnic Germans with minimal loyalty to the Polish state couldn't sabotage them anymore.

@redideologies