Poland's biggest historical blunder?

maybe You would like to tell me where I am wrong?

Poland was tolerant so let Germans settle there

it was defended by Polish army

the taxes were going to the Polish crown.

Then after partitions, this multicultural city was germanised

Not true. The military, postal system and railway transport were Polish. Same as big deal of inhabitants. The defence of Westerplatte and of Poczta Główna in 1939 resulted from exactly those roles in the Wolne Miasto Gdańsk.

let me quote Your historian, Norman Davies if the words of Jodl are not enough for You:
page 548 and 549,Polish edition of The Gods Playground:
"According to military debates, Polish Army was supposed to hold off Wermacht for the period of two weeks, so Western allies could move 70 ready to fight French divisions stationing near Ren river. When the time came, Poles fullfiled their task but French and British didnt

so I understand that You are all for athnic cleansing?

did You read the agreement I gave You what treaties are You talking about?

Not true. The military, postal system and railway transport were Polish. Same as big deal of inhabitants. The defence of Westerplatte and of Poczta Główna in 1939 resulted from exactly those roles in the Wolne Miasto Gdańsk.

Your argument is wrong. No modern nation state can claim a city, region or country because some twat from the Middle Ages owned it once. That's just 19th century nationalism. The right of self-determination is the basis of our legal system.
And you are wrong on some other things too:

Has nothing to do with Poland or Germany but with the upcoming nationalism of the 19th century, which threatened minorities everywhere in Europe.

Only the city itself decided who settled inside the city walls. Part of the great privilege.

The city was freed of all taxes in the great privilege and could raise their own taxes.

Your argument is wrong. No modern nation state can claim a city, region or country because some twat from the Middle Ages owned it once. That's just 19th century nationalism. The right of self-determination is the basis of our legal system.

this simple information You can find even on wikipedia

I guess this is what Your ancestors were thinking behaving like traitors and cowards again just like in 1920

so how You determine the boarders?isnt it by history and self determination?

minorities were threated long before 19 century, if for example the city rebelled-minorities were punished much more severely,and I was not pointing out whose fault it was, simply stating the facts.

and the privileges were given by who????

No mister your argument is wrong because case of Gdansk is not about the Middle Ages. It is about the fact that Gdansk was an important royal city in the long history of Kingdom of Poland well into the XVIII century.

Norman Davies most certainly is not 'my' anything, and remember why he was denied tenure as a professor of history? And by the way, how deep into Poland were the German army after 14 days?

As for his comments, perhaps he can explain how Britain was supposed to attack Germany with "70 ready to fight French divisions"? Yet again Davies ignores the facts and tells Polish readers what they want to hear.

I'm not from a nation which ethnically cleansed land: you, however, are.

Yes, it is the same one which the international court in the Hague adjudicated Poland to have broken. Other treaties Poland broken include the 1918 interim agreement with Czechoslovakia (broken twice), the 1920 treaty of Warsaw (after which Poland sold her allies to the USSR) and the Czechoslovak-Polish Treaty on 24 April 1925 (which Poland broke by leading the joint Polish-Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia)

And Poles never ever edit Wikipedia so it tells lies dear to their hearts, do they!

WTF you prattling on about you wierd fish? 1920? My Ancestors? WTF? My ancestors in 1920 had just got out of 4 years of fighting in WW1,you know,that real war that happened a couple of years before those forgoton eastern skirmishes.....
Not sure just where you think I come from hunny bunny,but in 1920 WTF did irish or scottish people have to do with whatever the hell you are talking about?

edit,just read a few of your posts.....LMFAO,they read like some fooking PRAVDA lecture...dont worry about facts or anything,oh no,just make dam sure you paint Poland as the biggest fooking cry baby "me me me" moany wimpy ungreatfull bunch of lily livered ingrate whingers who bang on about mutual comitment and then sit on their arses while we cowardly westerners still do all the fighting.......so,get fcuked you silly cow,when I see Polish planes over libya or the death toll of Poles in afgan nearing 500 then maybe we can talk again.....

By asking the people, how it was done in Upper Silesia and Masuria when Poland was re-established.

Doesn't matter in this case, since the city could have decided to allow only Germans to settle in the town. So, the decision to be multicutural wasn't a Polish but a civic feat

since Prussia was also a multicultural state.

so You are saying that Davies lies when he says that Britain didnt fire a single bullet?

I dont dismiss the facts

5 November 1918 Polan and Czechoslovakia agreed to the borders of Śląsk Cieszyński in accordance with the ethnicity of the land

hovewer Czechoslovakia using the chaos ruling in Poland because of Pol-Ukr war and Wielkopolskie uprising invaded Polish part of Śląsk Cieszyński on 26 January 1919.

During the conflict they have murdered about 20 Polish POW.

Then in 1938 Poland took what belonged to Poalnd

oh pleaaaasseeeeee!!!!Harry

in 1920 Britain also was supposed to help Pl....

so,get fcuked you silly cow,when I see Polish planes over libya or the death toll of Poles in afgan nearing 500 then maybe we can talk again.....

The royal city is another PR stunt blown way out of proportion.

he Polish king was "allowed" to stay in the city for three days a year. How royal is that?
And again: the legal basis for territorial claims in our times is the self-determination of the people. Not Polish people in Krakow or Warsaw could have decided over the fate of Gdansk/Danzig but only the inhabitants of the city itself.