Max and Martin (Annecdote Booklet p. 17) traveled to Ziegenhals, which was in southern Silesia near the border to Austria until 1918. Over the border then were two rather small leftovers of former (18th c.) Austrian Silesia, a Silesia before the prussian King Frederick II ‘took’ it from empress Maria Theresia. After 1918 over there was Czechoslovakia with the unhappy German speaking Sudeten-Deutsche (inclined to greet some day Hitler frenetically ...). All of them had to leave by brutal force after 1945. The Sudeten is a very woody region in the mountains between (today) Poland Czechia (we may get impressions from photos from a Czech railway fan:  <http://www.parostroj.net/historie/Jesenicko/hanusovice_gl_foto.htm>) and that must have been the reason why Max had his (or one of  more) celulose factory at Ziegenhals (silly name: ‘Goat’s neck’). One may wonder where the ‘Owner Polish Cellstoff Co/Timber Co, Berlin’ for Max comes from? Even in those times it was not  good publicity to baptise a Berlin based company ‘Polish’. If Max and Martin would arrive at Ziegenhals the station would have looked like this (from a german fan): <http://www.ostbahninfo.de/polen/strecken/kbs206/kbs206.htm>. >

			These pictures seem to show the boom eastern Europe is experiencing now: The near abandon on the Polish side even in 2003 (pics of German fan) to the revival (skiing) in 2004 from the czech side (pics of Czech fan, with sad old pics from 1998). Notice the heavy German semantics - in our middle-Europe eyes - of all these old buildings, once Austrian (Hanusovice / Hannsdorf) or Prussian (Glucholacy / Ziegenhals). [*Expat]