In the late 1840s, Danzig went through a period of economic stagnation and poverty. Many residents were without work or income. To alleviate the hardship, the city decided to build a new major connecting road from Brösen to the Große Allee. Thus the Ostseestraße/Danziger Straße thoroughfare was created. In memory of this project during the years of hunger, 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 Allee, only to eventually 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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