After May 1945 the city and the majority of Lower Silesia fell into the Soviet Zone of Occupation who expelled its German population and began replacing them with Polish settlers who came to the once again Polish city of Głogów to find a seriously war-damaged town; it has not been fully rebuilt to this day. The town started to develop again only in 1957,[1] after a copper foundry was built there. It is still the largest industrial company in the town.