After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 , the town hosted schools and training grounds for both the '' SS '' and the '' SA '' paramilitary forces , becoming the honorary centre of the Nazi Party in the Prussian Province of Upper Silesia . The town 's synagogue was burned down in 1938 , the same year as Kristallnacht . After the Vistula – Oder Offensive , on 18 March 1945 , Red Army troops began a siege of the city , which was resisted by the 18th SS Panzergrenadier Division ( Tank grenadiers ) and the 371st Wehrmacht division . The siege ended on March 24 , and the Soviet forces occupied the town . Approximately 40 percent of the town was destroyed in the siege or by Red Army troopers plundering in the first weeks of the occupation
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
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