English Translation

NS The old engravings show Poznan as a defensive city in the Middle Ages. A small piece of wall at the old castle, the present Reichsarchiv, is still one of the witnesses of German defensiveness. In the 19th century, the city received a new defensive belt through its expansion as the strongest German fortress in the East. Important soldiers worked here or were born here, from the fort builder Grolmann via Gneisenau, who died here, and from that chief of staff Clausewiz to Generalfeldmarschall von Hindenburg, Poznan's greatest son. One of the general field marshals in the young victorious Wehrmacht of the National Socialist Empire, Günther von Kluge, was also born in Poznań.