Silesian Dream

“If this Upper Silesia,” P.G. Wodehouse said, enduring detainment in the midst of World War Two, “What on Earth must Lower Silesia be like?”

Last week I went with my dad to the Silesian Museum, which is housed in an old mine in Katowice. Its first incarnation was completed before World War Two and promptly destroyed by the Nazis, for whom it must have pr…