Dantzig (today, Gdansk, Poland) in ruins, late 1945.
Title

Dantzig (today, Gdansk, Poland) in ruins, late 1945.

Caption

Dantzig (former German city of the Hanse,
now Gdansk, in Poland) in ruines, late 1945, following the siege and capture of the city by the Red Army (February-May 1945).
The warehouses and shopkeepers' and sailors' houses on the Motlau Quay; to the right: vestiges of the Krantor, the building that housed the old medieval crane.

Date

1945

Credit line

Photo12/Collection Bernard Crochet

Reference

CRO01159_040

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No

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