Old Danzig (today: Gdansk, Poland)

Located at the mouth of the Vistula river, a once-mighty Hanseatic city-republic is found…

For our recent sojourn to Old Königsberg—now: Kaliningrad—please see this posting:

Then and Now: Königsberg/Kaliningrad

Today, we’ll go to Danzig (Gdansk, Poland), on which you can see also here (Wikipedia).

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St Mary’s Cathedral, postcard mailed on 20 May 1923

St Mary’s, the Observatory, and City Hall, mailed 3 March 1944.

Europe’s largest mediaeval port crane, mailed on 15 Aug. 1941.

The Motława waterfront near the Krantor, written by my grand-aunt on 15 Aug. 1941.

Today, it looks almost like then (minus the swastika flag, of course).

Enjoy, if you will.