Elbing was almost completely destroyed at the end of World War II . The city became the Polish Elbląg after the war , when the area was ceded to Poland under border changes promulgated at the Potsdam Conference . Parts of the inner city were gradually rebuilt , and around 2000 rebuilding was begun in a style emulating the previous architecture , in many cases over the same foundations and utilizing old bricks and portions of the same walls . The western suburbs of the old city have not been reconstructed
Potsdam Conference
Potsdam Conference
Elbląg