
In the article, Déat argued in favor of appeasement.


The phrase originated in the title of an article ("Mourir pour Dantzig?") by the French Neo-Socialist writer Marcel Déat, published on in the Parisian newspaper L'Œuvre ( L'Œuvre in French Wikipedia) The article concerned one of the Nazi German ultimatums to the Second Polish Republic, regarding the demand to transfer control of the Free City of Danzig (Gdańsk) to Germany.
