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Shot from below, the memorial’s three bronze wings blot out most of the sky. A man in a grey hoodie sat on the granite wall at the base, hunched over something in his lap, tiny against the thing behind him. He’d picked the one spot where the monument stops being a monument and turns into somewhere to sit.

Take him out of the frame and you’d have no clue how big it actually is.

The Silesian Insurgents Memorial‘s three wings stand for the three Silesian Uprisings of 1919, 1920, and 1921, when Polish-speaking Silesians rose against German rule after the First World War. It was designed by sculptor Gustaw Zemła, unveiled in 1967, and is 61 tonnes, assembled from 350 parts, with the tallest wing reaching 14 metres.

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