• The resort was established on the Westerplatte peninsula around 1830 which had a beach, a forested park, a seaside bath complex and health spa facilities.
  • Dramatization of the first battle of World War II. The first target of German troops in the invasion of Poland is a small garrison at Westerplatte.
  • The Battle of Westerplatte was the first battle in the Invasion of Poland, the beginning of the Second World War in Europe.
  • Westerplatte is a peninsula in Gdańsk, Poland, located on the Baltic Sea coast mouth of the Dead Vistula, in the Gdańsk harbour channel.
  • In the autumn of 2019, a team of archaeologists from the Museum of the Second World War (MSWW) discovered the remains of nine defenders of Westerplatte.
  • Westerplatte, the start of World War II. ... You can visit Westerplatte and its museums and wander across what was once the setting of a horrible war scene.
  • Soon after the resort infrastructure was constructed at Westerplatte the old mouth of the Vistula was corrected and Westerplatte became a peninsula.
  • The storage is named Military Transit Depot at Westerplatte It becomes a Polish exclave, surrounded by German-dominated Free City of Gdansk.
  • On March 14, 1924 Poland was awarded Westerplatte as a location for bringing in military equipment and ammunition from abroad (Polish Military Transit Depot).