[Raellus]

I don't think Elblag is on any nuclear strike lists (at least none that are canonically confirmed) so I choose to imagine that it was not nuked. I think the Germans would be very reluctant to agree to any nuclear strikes on areas of Poland that they've made historical claims to in the past (to the extant they have any sort of veto power), and Elblag has been a part of the various iterations of German Prussia from medieval times up to the Third Reich. IF the city was nuked- and, once again, I tend to think that it was not- the Soviets are likely to blame.

That said, the map in the BYB does show Elblag as being rubbled. I therefore tend to think that damage to the city was caused by conventional fighting (artillery, naval gunfire, airstrikes, etc.). For an idea of what modern Russian conventional firepower can do to relatively small city, do a Google image search for Grozny. Ouch.

For my campaign to work, I need an Elblag that doesn't look like Hiroshima. I've chosen to stray a bit from the canon and have the city be only moderately damaged by years of conventional fighting, but not rubbled per se (some repairs have been conducted by the city's inhabitants since the last round of heavy fighting) . If asked to rate the extent of the damage to the city on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being pristine and 10 being ashes and dust, I choose to envision Elblag somewhere around a 5.