Nowa Huta – a communist Utopia
Nowa Huta (“The new steel mill”) was an attempt to build a city from the ground, based on communistic principles and industrialization. The city was built next to Kraków in the Małopolskie region in Poland from 1949. Nowa Huta is one of the largest planned socialist districts ever built and one of the most renowned examples of deliberate social engineering in the entire world.
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On the former Old Cemetery of the Podgórze Jewish Community SS of the Nazi Germany established one of its largest concentration camps in. They destroyed the cemetery completely in the Podgórze suburb in southern Kraków.
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