Westerplatte
Peninsula in the harbour channel of Gdańsk, Poland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the 1967 Polish film, see Westerplatte (film).
Westerplatte (Polish pronunciation: [vɛstɛrˈplatɛ], [ˈvɛstɛrplatɛ][1], German pronunciation: [ˈvɛstɐplatə]) is a peninsula in Gdańsk, Poland,[2] located on the Baltic Sea coast mouth of the Dead Vistula (one of the Vistula delta estuaries), in the Gdańsk harbour channel. From 1926 to 1939, it was the location of a Polish Military Transit Depot (WST), sanctioned within the territory of the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk).
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It is famous for the Battle of Westerplatte, which was the first clash between Polish and German forces during the invasion of Poland and thus the beginning and the first battle of World War II.