Sean Lester, Poland, and the Nazi Takeover of Danzig. By Paul McNamara. Dublin and Portland, OR: Irish Academic Press. 2009. Pp. x+255. Cloth $65.00. ISBN 978-0-7165-2968-2. Paper $65.00. ISBN 978-0-7165-2969-9.

摘要

Among the political innovations of the Paris Peace Conference, the creation ofrnthe Free City of Danzig was undoubtedly one of the least successful. Unlike theirrntreatment of the Saar and Upper Silesia, the peacemakers had neither made pro-rnvisions for a plebiscite nor prescribed a terminal date for Danzig’s special status.rnThe Big Three’s last-minute decision to withhold the German port from Polandrnand create a free city under the authority of the as yet unborn League ofrnNations—but also to grant the Warsaw government economic and diplomaticrncontrol along with special minority rights for Polish inhabitants—led to tworndecades of conflict between the German-dominated local authority andrnGeneva as well as to friction between Warsaw and Berlin.