page_title: Teutonic takeover of Danzig (Gdańsk)
section_title: Lasting legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Teutonic takeover of Danzig (Gdańsk) / Aftermath / Lasting legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Monument to the Poles who died for the Gdansk Polishness Polski: Gdańsk - Pomnik poległych za Polskość Gdańska
context_page_description: The city of Danzig (Gdańsk) was captured by the State of the Teutonic Order on 13 November 1308, resulting in a massacre of its inhabitants and marking the beginning of tensions between Poland and the Teutonic Order. Originally the knights moved into the fortress as an ally of Poland against the Margraviate of Brandenburg. However, after disputes over the control of the city between the Order and the King of Poland arose, the knights murdered a number of citizens within the city and took it as their own. Thus the event is also known as Gdańsk massacre or Gdańsk slaughter. Though in the past, a matter of debate among historians, a consensus has been established that many people were murdered and a considerable part of the town was destroyed in the context of the take-over.
  In the aftermath of the take-over, the order seized all of Pomerelia and bought up the supposed Brandenburgian claims to the region in the Treaty of Soldin. The conflict with Poland was temporarily settled in the Treaty of Kalisz/Kalisch. The town was returned to Poland in the Peace of Toruń/Thorn in 1466.
context_section_description: When the area was disputed between Weimar Germany and the Second Polish Republic, the Poles recalled the massacre quoting the number of 10,000 murdered. After Nazi Germany had annexed the Free City of Danzig in World War II, the exiled Polish government in releases said that the knights had "massacre[d...] ten thousand souls", portrayed the contemporary Germans in the tradition of these events and linked these events with National Socialism. 
  In 1969, the Polish city authorities dedicated a monument that commemorates the massacre of the population of Gdańsk in 1308. Its stated aim was to propagate an analogy of the events of 1308 and the German crimes of World War II. On the monument, called Tym co za Polskość Gdańska ("For those who fought/fell/stood up for Gdansk's Polishness"), the dates 1308, 1454, 1466 and 1939 are mentioned, relating the events of 1308 to the Thirteen Years' War and World War II.
caption: Monument in Gdańsk
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