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City of ruins

  • 11-09-2010 8:20pm
    #1
    Artur.PL
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    Five minute animated trip over destroyed Warsaw in 1945
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxb5H77wYt0

    About a thousand people were living there in early 1945. On 1 September 1939 Warsaw had about one million 300 thousand inhabitants.
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  • #2
    Morlar
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    That is truly staggering.


  • #3
    Prefab Sprouter
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    Yeah they did a pretty good job on it during the Warsaw rising - The Kaminski and Dirlewanger Brigades werent disposed towards the Civilians during that time.


  • #4
    Morlar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    Considering the composition of the dirlewanger was that really much of a surprise ? Some people would argue he met a just end. Personally I don't condone murder of unarmed prisoners without trial. The unexpected & cynical Soviet halt also proved fatal to the uprising.


  • #5
    BlaasForRafa
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    Morlar wrote: »
    Considering the composition of the dirlewanger was that really much of a surprise ? Some people would argue he met a just end. Personally I don't condone murder of unarmed prisoners without trial. The unexpected & cynical Soviet halt also proved fatal to the uprising.

    As well, Kaminski was murdered by the Gestapo in a roadside ambush not long after the warsaw uprising, even Himmler wanted to disown himself from his actions which is saying something...


  • #6
    Morlar
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    I read somewhere that there was only ever about a hundred men in the dirlewanger at any given time.

    About a month ago on a collector forum I use a photograph surfaced of a dirlewanger soldier and it was the first time most people there (including collectors with years of experience) had even seen an original photograph - which should give an idea of the rarity of them.


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  • #7
    tac foley
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    Artur.PL wrote: »
    Five minute animated trip over destroyed Warsaw in 1945
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxb5H77wYt0

    About a thousand people were living there in early 1945. On 1 September 1939 Warsaw had about one million 300 thousand inhabitants.
    more

    :=(

    tac


  • #8
    Artur.PL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 274 ✭✭Artur.PL


    I think it is a good example what kind of war it was
    Wola massacre


  • #9
    FiSe
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    Reminds me of this famous footage of Berlin of '45


  • #10
    Prefab Sprouter
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    FiSe wrote: »
    Reminds me of this famous footage of Berlin of '45
    Indeed, or in Fact any German Town or City within range of the 8th Air Force or Bomber Command.


  • #11
    colorwarphotos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭colorwarphotos


    hello, so that film was composed from british airial photography ?
    Ian


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  • #12
    BlaasForRafa
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    Prefab Sprouter wrote: »
    Indeed, or in Fact any German Town or City within range of the 8th Air Force or Bomber Command.

    As far as I can recall the battle of warsaw was the last active role on the eastern front played by the massive 600mm Karl mortars.

    http://images.bidorbuy.co.za/user_images/203/1196203_091110183225_Karl6.jpg


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