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Before I went to Warsaw, I knew little of the city beyond the fact that it was Poland\u2019s capital. I had not realised that much of present-day Warsaw<\/span>, including its beautiful historic centre, was rebuilt after World War II.<\/div>\n

Warsaw\u2019s wartime destruction was not merely the consequence of battle, but a deliberate campaign by its Nazi German occupiers to erase much of the city. In August 1944, the Warsaw Uprising \u2013 a Polish armed revolt by the city\u2019s underground resistance against German occupation \u2013 began with the aim of liberating Warsaw. German forces fought to crush it, subjecting the city to sustained bombardment.<\/p>\n

When the uprising was finally suppressed after nine weeks, the surviving population was expelled, with tens of thousands of Poles sent to concentration camps. The emptied city was then systematically destroyed. German demolition units moved through Warsaw, wrecking or blowing up buildings that had survived the fighting. Churches, palaces, schools, theatres, libraries and historic monuments were reduced to rubble.<\/p>\n

By January 1945, almost 90 per cent of the city\u2019s buildings had been destroyed. The cultural losses were particularly devastating. Libraries containing centuries of Polish manuscripts, books, maps and other collections were deliberately burned, while countless works of art and historical records vanished. Warsaw was left in ruins, its historic centre a smouldering pile of debris.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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