In the late 1840s, Danzig went through a period of economic stagnation and poverty. Many residents were without work and income. To alleviate the hardship, the city decided at that time to build a new large connecting road from Brösen to the Große Allee. Thus the road consisting of Ostseestraße/Danziger Straße was created. In memory of this project during the hunger years, the Danzigers still called this road "Hungerchaussee" (Hunger Highway) decades later. After the war, its names began to reflect the developing Cold War. Initially still called Roosevelt Allee, this changed after a short time to Allied Avenue, only to ultimately mutate into Karl-Marx-Allee. Only at the beginning of the 1990s did it receive the name of the Polish General Haller.

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