Edited sentence: 70 000 demonstrators) went to streets of Danzig to protest against the anti-democratic decision to place Danzig under alien rule and separate it from their homeland.On 23rd of March 1919, the German population (approx.The Versailles treaty however violated US-President Wilson's 14 points and ignored the democratically declared will of the Danzig population.The demonstration was repeated the following month with 100 000 people, which was almost the whole male population to Danzig going to the streets.The name "Freie Stadt Danzig" (Free City of Danzig) however was a misleading term and a euphemism by the victorious powers; people in Danzig were not made free but separated from their nation against their will and placed under alien rule.The placing of millions of Germans under alien rule in 1919 thus creating a vast German irredenta is considered to be one of the triggers of World war II