I have been researching different groups that were stateless but were functioning societies the last remnants of the Hanseatic League existed until Hitlers invasion of Poland. The free state of Danzig was one of the cities in the Hanseatic League. It was independent until Prussia annexed it in 1793 and merged into the German empire upon its creation. After the treaty of Versailles it was made an independent city-state again under Polish protection. Danzig was one of Hitler’s targets, he thought he could provoke Poland into giving him Danzig like the Czech’s folded and gave him Sudetenland. Of course Poland did not give in and Hitler invaded anyway and started WWII.
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