i will never understand German obsession over this small irrelevant town (besides Fahrenheit and Schopenhauer literally no famous person ever came from there) that wasn't part of Germany for most of history
at the same time we have cities like Breslau or Stettin that were far more important for German history and culture yet Germans barely ever care about them
>>214629253
I think he means this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teutonic_takeover_of_Danzig_(Gda%C5%84sk) >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
>>214625783 (OP)
Sometimes I feel bad about Germans being cleansed out of their centuries long ancestral homes from Stettin to Memel but then I remember they were genocidal freaks and should be glad they were only kicked out and not exterminated until the last curbstomped infant