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Kaliningrad inherited from Königsberg an extensive network of tramways. Between 1895, when the first line was launched, and 1945,

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Assemblage of aerial photographs of the Central square of Kaliningrad, that has replaced the old town of Königsberg. Since the

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Until the 1990s images of Königsberg were practically inaccessible in Kaliningrad, and even sometimes were subject to prosecution. 

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The desire of "tabula rasa" stipulated by Soviet propaganda is accomplished with a series of ideological destructions. Any manifestation of German heritage is seen as a foreign and hostile element. Thus the new life renounces the past, starts from scratch.

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The widespread looting of the region began in 1946 when the buildings of the center of Königsberg, affected by the destructions, were dismantled to supply in brick other cities of the USSR that lacked building materials. Today, in the rural

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When the German population fled East Prussia between 1944 and 1945, some families buried their most precious goods hoping to return and find them. 

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Found object, identified as a fragment of the palisade of the Royal Castle of Königsberg | found in the area of the wasteland of the Central square in Kaliningrad.