Reading a story about a new exhibit of photographs of Warsaw during the war I came across this statistic:
Around 85 percent of Warsaw was reduced to rubble during the war, with most of the damage coming in pitched street battles during the 1943 Ghetto Uprising and a year later between Polish insurgents and the Nazi occupiers in the Warsaw Uprising. After crushing the 1944 revolt, the Germans systematically dynamited most of the remaining buildings and shipped many of the surviving residents to concentration camps.
I had not remembered that the devastation was that thorough. Unfoirtunately the pictures in the story aren't online. Here are some though and here's a LIFE picture from the time.
Around 85 percent of Warsaw was reduced to rubble during the war, with most of the damage coming in pitched street battles during the 1943 Ghetto Uprising and a year later between Polish insurgents and the Nazi occupiers in the Warsaw Uprising. After crushing the 1944 revolt, the Germans systematically dynamited most of the remaining buildings and shipped many of the surviving residents to concentration camps.
I had not remembered that the devastation was that thorough. Unfoirtunately the pictures in the story aren't online. Here are some though and here's a LIFE picture from the time.
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