An absolutely meaningless phrase in 2026 given that Danzig is now called Gdansk, and that it is a relatively unimportant port city on Poland’s Baltic Coast.

But in 1939 it was the rallying cry of those citizens of the western democracies of France and Britain who simply could not understand why their countries were getting involved in a war to protect far away Poland from Nazi invasion.

Marcel Deat was the man who coined the phrase. Deat was a socialist leader in France whose political ideology was shaped by his service in World War I. He had witnessed the horrors........

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