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Silesia was known for its large coal deposits that easily mined. Coal was one of the few, and the main, Polish export in the years immediately following WWII.

The greatest export in the years immediately after World War II in Poland was coal. Ships leave for various European destinations from the ports of Gdansk, Gdynia, and Szczecin.

Project for the New Church of the Holy Sepulchre
1939-1940
Luigi Marangoni & Antonio Barluzzi, architects

Plan of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

The city of Bawarda was designed by James M. Wilson in 1926 and was inspired by Lutyens’s remodelling of the Garden City and City Beautiful ideas in New Delhi (1911–1940). Bawarda was an attempt at social and ethnic mixing and also offered larger…

Map of the town of Astrakhan' by french cartographer Jean-Baptiste Croissey.

Pipes—"not yet lowered into the ground"—on Potsdamer Platz, 1935