Magical St. Mary's Street this time overlooking St. Mary's Church. Hard not to fall in love with it...
Let me go back to my photo of the market hall from 29.06 (Thank you for the information about the case of the drowned people during the liberation of the city). I mentioned in the above post about the bunker that was under Dominican Square.
I read an article from 2016 and today I am about to talk about it in more detail. Well, on 26.03.1945, about five hundred civilians of mainly German descent, but there were also some Poles and forced laborers from France hiding in the massive air raid shelter near the market hall. Suddenly the city ran out of electricity as a result of the air raids. The pump draining the water from the bunker stopped working. It began to arrive. People rushed to escape, but Soviet soldiers shot at them as they exited the underground trap. Several hundred corpses began to emit a foul odor over time, and it was ordered that the bodies be extricated from the water and buried in a mass grave perhaps near Gertruda Bastion, although one commentator writes that they were buried not far from the place of death.
During the liberation of Danzig from Nazi hands, Soviet troops destroyed completely what was left of the city's buildings.
The local population was raped and killed, and buildings were burned. (Mieczyslaw Abramowicz writes interestingly about the situation in Gdansk in March 1945 at From a article we learn that in Danzig in mid-March 1945 about a million people were crowded in bunkers including refugees from Prussia. Hitler ordered the city to be defended at all costs, and ordered soldiers who wanted to avoid fighting to be hanged from trees. One German woman recalls numerous rapes and murders on 28.03 by Soviet soldiers). I do not believe that all German civilians were responsible for the war and that they all deserved to die, but the laws of war are cruel....
The comments under the article are largely full of envy and lust for retaliation against the German people.
If everyone took to heart Jesus' words about turning the other cheek, there would be no wars....