Teatr Miejski

So much history. When Prussia came in possession of this area in 1772 , West Prussia, as the result of the 1st Polish partition, Frederick the Great wrote the inhabitants were less civilized than the Iriquoi Indians in America. Bromberg gradually became a beautiful city. The very important Bromberg canal was constructed as a wonderful transportation route. Thousands of Germans were murdered in this area by Poles just before/at the start of World War II. This is true and there is much documentation to prove this. Eyewitness accounts and terrible picrures of victims. So much for the unprovoked attack on Poland. Then there is that famous picture of Catholic priests forced to be sitting on the ground in the city square, and all about to be murdered by the invading Germans in September 1939. Also pictures of civilians lined up to be shot too. So horrible and beyond frightening like a nightmare. Then the Red army arrived in January 1945 and destroyed much of the city fighting the Germans. There had been a beautiful Opera House built in the 19th century in the city center along with many other very fine buildings all destroyed in the fighting. At least these pictures here show some nice buildings somehow survived this disaster. And then........ this article in the New York Times about the "discovery " of a huge Evangelical Lutheran cemetery of over 80,000 graves in the outskirts of what had been Bromberg in about 2015. The Polish Communist government had destroyed all the headstones and above ground mausoleums in the 1970s because here was irrefutable proof this had been a German city for a VERY long time, but then they forgot to remove the actual graves. The burial vaults accidentally started being dug up during a big construction project 70 years after World War II. Could it actually be possible Poles could not even keep track there had been a huge, and I mean HUGE, German cemetery here? Outrageous. I wonder if they decided to make it into a very big park and just let all these people buried there in the 19th and early 20th century rest in peace. What a bizarre sequence of events over 250 years. The Poles built a New Opera house and restored/rebuilt destroyed parts of the city. Admirable.

Gdańska

Won niemcu