Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
Gdansk definitely was never a "German" city. Its Slavonic name is original, and Slavonic inhabitants of that city has been always calling it that way. That Germans living there used different name doesn't matter much
After having seen Gdansk, I cannot agree with this description. The old town's entire architecture and purpose as a trading port of the Teutonic Orden, with its monopoly on the amber trade, is what I would describe as "German". This includes the St. Mary church, inspired directly from the brick castle of Marienburg / Malbork.
I cannot claim to be an expert on anything Polish or German, but my disagreement should be interpreted as an indication of an area where Wikipedia should provide more background in the form of verifiable facts rather than assertions that it "was never a German city". Such assertions only serve to disqualify those who utter them.