Destruction of Warsaw
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The destruction of Warsaw was Nazi Germany's razing of the city in late 1944, after the 1944 Warsaw Uprising of the Polish resistance. The uprising infuriated German leaders, who decided to destroy th
German Brandkommando (Burning Detachment) burning a building in Warsaw. Taken on Leszno street.
Command hierarchy of Germany forces realizing Warsaw's destruction (drawing by Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski during 1945–46 Nuremberg Trials).
Plan for Neue deutsche Stadt Warschau ("New German city of Warsaw")
Warsaw Uprising, August 1944
Pabst Plan
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The Pabst Plan was an urban plan by Nazi Germany to reconstruct the city of Warsaw as a Nazi model city. Named after its creator Friedrich Pabst, the Nazis' "Chief Architect for Warsaw", the plan assu
Destruction of Warsaw
…Warsaw Uprising of the Polish resistance. The uprising infuriated German leaders, who decided to destroy the city in retaliation. The razing of the city had long been planned. Warsaw had been selected for destruction and major reconstruction as part of the Nazis' planned Germanization of Central Europe, under the Generalplan…
Ghetto children
Hans Frank (center, wearing a glove after a suicide attempt shortly after his arrest) at the Nuremberg trial, with Alfred Jodl and Alfred Rosenberg