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A copy of the mast of the Babice Radio Station in Stare Babice is a memento of the Transatlantic Radiotelegraphic Broadcasting Centre in Babice formally opened on the 17th of November 1923. It was then that the president of the Second Polish Republic Stanisław Wojciechowski sent a dispatch to the president of the United States of America John Calvin Coolidge. The construction of the Station was one of the largest technical undertakings of the interwar period in Poland – thanks to the completion of this bold and expensive project, Poland gained direct contact with i.a. the stock market in New York. The entire infrastructure of the station, consisting of 10 126,5m high towers and buildings with broadcasting equipment occupied an area in the form of a lane – 4 km long and 0,5 to 1,2 km wide. A week after the invasion of German troops, on the 8th of September 1939, the broadcasts were suspended and on the 16th of September the area was manned by soldiers of the 3rd Battalion of the 26th Infantry Regiment and the 5th battery of the 54th Infantry Regiment. Polish troops defended the area until the 27th of September when the radio station was captured by the Germans. Soon after that, the occupants established a communication point with the submarines of the Kriegsmarine there. The Germans destroyed the masts with explosives on the 16th of January 1945 before they were eventually driven out of the Warsaw area. The miniature copy of the mast designed by Kazimierz Steć was unveiled on the 17th of November 2013.
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