The Free City was primarily inhabited by ethnic Germans but the majority fled or were expelled when the territory was incorporated into Poland at the conclusion of World War II.
[3] One of these groups made pleas to the United Nations, calling for official recognition, the deportation of Poles from its claimed territory, and assistance in re-establishing the Free City.
Herbet Adler, a tram conductor from Essen, claimed to be the President of the Exile Government of the Republic of the Free City of Danzig (German: Präsident der Exil-Regierung der Republik Freie Stadt Danzig) and sent diplomatic letters to various countries and politicians and received replies from the government of Ghana and West Germany's Minister of the Interior, Paul Lücke.
This includes Ernst F. Kriesner who at least by the late 1990s while living in Australia claimed to be a senator and the foreign affairs minister of the Free State.
[11] In addition to this, no formal treaty has ever altered the status of the Free City of Danzig, and they argue its incorporation into Poland has rested upon the general acquiescence of the international community.