Can you name the 20 largest cities of the 'Third Reich' in 1939? by professor88

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Germany's largest cities 1939 Quiz

by professor88

Created May 30, 2011 in Geography
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	professor88:	May 30th, 2011 at 22:12 GMT	2 points
	Königsberg, Breslau and Vienna are tricky, I know ;-)

	chriskotx:	May 30th, 2011 at 23:21 GMT	0 points
	I think I tried 6 different ways to spell Nurnberg.

	professor88:	May 30th, 2011 at 23:24 GMT	2 points
	@chriskotx: Nuremberg, Nurnberg and Nürnberg are all accepted...

	adrian96:	May 30th, 2011 at 23:43 GMT	-2 points
	Such a random year...

	professor88:	May 31st, 2011 at 00:06 GMT	4 points
	@adrian96: Well, for Germany not random at all -it's the year World War II started.

	toledorockets:	May 31st, 2011 at 01:07 GMT	2 points
	tricked me on Vienna. Forgot about the auschluss

	dancastro:	May 31st, 2011 at 04:46 GMT	3 points
	@toledorockets: it's spelled Anschluss. Ausschluss would be the opposite (getting out of the power of Hitler, something not too easy in 1939).

	ragu:	May 31st, 2011 at 13:30 GMT	1 point
	Where does Danzig fit in with all this?

	driesjes:	May 31st, 2011 at 15:04 GMT	2 points
	Danzig was a free city after WWI I think.

	sluq:	May 31st, 2011 at 16:26 GMT	2 points
	Danzig was annexed in September 1939, shortly after the beginning of the war. I guess it would be useful to amend the description and refer to pre-war borders explicitly.

	professor88:	May 31st, 2011 at 17:44 GMT	2 points
	The city of Danzig had about 260.000 inhabitants in 1939. -Too few for the top 20. But I just added the pre-war description... ;-)

	ragu:	May 31st, 2011 at 19:10 GMT	1 point
	I brought it up as I thought it would have had a larger population than that and I knew it was part of germany by 1939 , apparently in 1934 its population was 383,955, but with everything that went on this obviously must have dropped significantly.

	Choinowski:	May 31st, 2011 at 19:57 GMT	1 point
	I guessed Karl-Marx-Stadt but that was wrong. I guess also that them germans didn't like Karl Marx that much back then. Damn Chemnitz...

	adrian96:	May 31st, 2011 at 21:13 GMT	2 points
	@Professor88 Because I wasn't being sarcastic....

	professor88:	May 31st, 2011 at 22:13 GMT	2 points
	@ragu: What's your source for that number? I think that's not the number for the city of Danzig but for the entire administrative area. Can't imagine it to have dropped that much. @Choinowski: Yeah, it was named K-M-Stadt after Saxony became part of communist East Germany. @adrian96: Ok, now I get it... ;-)

	ragu:	Jun 1st, 2011 at 10:42 GMT	1 point
	That number was taken from the world history KMLA websites page on Danzig, however this Jewish encylopedia site gives the population in 1939 as 449,990 but I dont know whether these are for the whole administrative area or how reliable these type of sources are. http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/pinkas_poland/pol6_00033.html

	brittain33:	Jun 1st, 2011 at 22:04 GMT	2 points
	If you want to push the 1939 angle, Lodz, Poland was incorporated into the Third Reich in November 1939 and renamed Litzmannstadt with a population of about 600,000.

	professor88:	Jun 2nd, 2011 at 18:27 GMT	1 point
	@ragu: Yeah, that's in agreement with the numbers I got. The German "Brockhaus" encyclopedia gives ~450.000 for 1939 for the administrative area of Danzig. The city itself was at 260.000 though.

	brittain33:	Jun 2nd, 2011 at 18:52 GMT	1 point
	P.S. just saw "PREWAR BORDERS OF 1939" in your instructions, I'm sorry if it looked like I was doing an unwonted correction above.