Original sentence: In 1939, following orders from Berlin, Forster led the agitation in Danzig to step up pressure for re-union with Germany.The Danzig issue was one of the pretexts used for the German invasion of Poland in 1939.The result was, inevitably, great bitterness among the local Germans, which Forster's Germanization policies, which denied them higher status then that of the Poles, naturally exacerbated
Edited sentence: In 1939, following orders from Berlin, Forster led the agitation in Danzig to seek re-union with Germany.The Danzig issue was used as a pretext for the German invasion of Poland in 1939.The result was, inevitably, great bitterness among the local Germans, which Forster's Germanization policies, which denied them higher status then that of the hated ethnic Poles, naturally exacerbated