- A Monument of the Coast Defenders (Pomnik Obrońców Wybrzeża) was unveiled in 1966. Westerplatte Museum dedicated to the 1939 battle was created in 2015.
- The German attack also entailed a bombardment of Polish positions at Westerplatte by a battleship and the landing of German infantry on the peninsula.
- The name sounded strangely non-Polish. No one in school ever mentioned the Battle of Westerplatte or that World War II began there.
- The ship took us along the river from Gdansk to Westerplatte, past several shipyards and coal factories. ... Finally, we went to the iconic memorial at Westerplatte.
- The Westerplatte was a low, mostly wooded, long peninsula with a length of around 2,000m and a maximum width of 600m.
- 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.
- By the autumn of 1939, the Polish garrison occupying Westerplatte comprised of 182 soldiers expected to withstand a potential attack for twelve hours.
- 1939'da, küçük Westerplatte yarımadasındaki 209 Polonyalı savunucu, kendilerine karadan, denizden ve havadan saldıran yaklaşık 3.400 Alman'ı durdurdu.
- German battleship Schleswig-Holstein marks the start of World War II by firing on the garrison stationed at the Westerplatte peninsula in Poland.
- Background of Westerplatte. After World War I, Germany and its territory in East Prussia were separated by the newly-formed Polish territory.
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Полуостров в Гданьске
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Полуостров в Гданьске, Польша, расположенный на побережье Балтийского моря в устье Мертвой Вислы, в канале Гданьской гавани. С 1926 по 1939 год здесь располагался польский Военный транзитный склад, санкционированный на территории Вольного города Данциг.