Poland 1939 ▶ Gdynia Gotenhafen Gdansk Danzig - Polen Adolf Hitler Visit (September 1939)

170 Poland 1939 ▶ Gdynia Gotenhafen Gdansk Danzig - Adolf Hitler Visit Polen (September 1939) Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, Walther von Reichenau (10. Armee), Erwin Rommel, Martin Bormann German History Archive ▶ Gdynia (Kashubian Gdiniô, German Gdingen, 1939-1945 Gotenhafen) is a port city in Poland in the Gdansk Bay. It forms the metropolitan region of Trójmiasto (Tri-City) in the Pomeranian Voivodeship with the larger Gdansk (Gdańsk) and the smaller Sopot (Sopot). First documented as the settlement of Gdina in 1253, Gdynia was granted city status in 1926 and subsequently developed into the most important port city of the Second Polish Republic. Gdynia was a village until 1918. The Versailles Peace Treaty gave Poland access to the Baltic Sea through the Polish Corridor, but it did not