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Prior to the Second World War, Warsaw hosted the world's second largest Jewish population after New York – approximately 30 percent of the city's total population in the late 1930s. [53] In 1933, 833,500 out of 1,178,914 people declared Polish as their mother tongue. [142] There was also a notable German community. [143]
Observation Post Alpha, OP Alpha, or Point Alpha was a Cold War observation post between Rasdorf, Hesse, West Germany and Geisa, Thuringia, East Germany.The post overlooked part of the "Fulda Gap", which would have been a prime invasion route for Warsaw Pact forces had the Cold War erupted into actual warfare.
The destruction of Warsaw was practically unparalleled in the Second World War, with it being noted that "Perhaps no city suffered more than Warsaw during World War II", with historian Alexandra Richie stating that "The destruction of Warsaw was unique even in the terrible history of the Second World War". [1]
Siege by Julien Bryan. Siege is a 1940 documentary short about the Siege of Warsaw by the Wehrmacht at the start of World War II.It was shot by Julien Bryan, a Pennsylvanian photographer and cameraman who later established the International Film Foundation.
Lightning illuminated Warsaw in the early hours of July 2, treating night owls in Poland’s capital city to a dazzling meteorological display.Dimitrios Zafeiropoulos was among those to witness ...
The destruction of the city was already planned long before its almost total destruction in 1944, even prior to the start of World War II.On 20 June 1939, while Adolf Hitler was visiting an architectural bureau in Würzburg, his attention was captured by a project to create a future "German" town—Warsaw (German: Warschau, Polish: Warszawa), [citation needed] which later became known as the ...
The Monument to Victims of the Wola Massacre (Pomnik ofiar Rzezi Woli) is a monument commemorating the Wola massacre, the brutal mass-murder of the civilian population of Warsaw's Wola district, carried out by the Germans in the early days of the Warsaw Uprising, from 5 to 12 August 1944. It is located in a small square ("Skwer Pamięci") at ...
Wola (Polish pronunciation: ⓘ) is a district in western Warsaw, Poland. An industrial area with traditions reaching back to the early 19th century, it underwent a transformation into a major financial district, featuring various landmarks and some of the tallest office buildings in the city .