Danzig law (German: Danziger Willkür; in Polish: Gdański Wilkierz ) was the official set of records of the laws of city of Danzig (Gdańsk). Danziger Willkür means „Danzig's choice by free will“, as opposed to having been imposed from outside, as while part of the Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights. Nowadays, the meaning of Willkür has eroded to "arbitrariness".
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“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
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