THE UNKNOWN WAR 1978 TV SERIES
EPISODE 16: THE LIBERATION OF POLAND (VIDEO)
The city was gradually destroyed throughout World War II. By September 1939, ten percent of its buildings had already been destroyed. The devastation continued in 1941, when the city suffered Soviet bombings. In 1943, the destruction was brought to an unprecedented level with the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto. In the aftermath of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the entire district of northern Warsaw was literally wiped from the surface of the earth.
The final stage of destruction came with the Warsaw Uprising, when large parts of the Old Town, the city centre and the Powiśle and Wola districts were destroyed. What was left was methodically looted and then razed to the ground by the German Vernichtungs- and Verbrenungskommando – even as late as mid-January 1945
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