Anklam was nearly completely destroyed by several bombing raids of the U.S. Air Force in 1943 and 1944 and in the last days of World War II , when the advancing Soviets burned and leveled most of the town . After Prussia and its Pomeranian province were dissolved and most of Pomerania was allocated to Poland under the terms of the Potsdam Conference , Anklam became part of the East German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern . That was soon to be dissolved , too , and Anklam was within the district of Neubrandenburg . The town was rebuilt in the rather uniform socialist style
Potsdam Conference
Potsdam Conference
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