English Translation

Anyone who has seen and sees Poznan immediately after the 10th of Geptember 1939, the day of the victorious arrival of the German troops, is amazed at the change of the cityscape. To all the hardships of the wartime to the Troß, the city, administration, supported by the understanding and will of all Germans, has approached its tasks with a distant will for action. In place of the Stilftand and the decay, destruction and negotiation, the forces are everywhere, in order to transform poses into a city which, according to the will of the leader, is to become one of the most beautiful cities of the Great German Empire. Green areas are re-furnished or reshuffled like those around the Parkgaststátte Schwanenweiher, on whose lake during the first Poznan music week in autumn 194o the Festive Water Music of G. F. Händel sounded. 19a