Aerial photographs taken by the Luftwaffe showing Warsaw's gradual destruction during World War II are showing the progression from the early days of the Nazi occupation in September 1939 to brutal street fighting of the ill-fated Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Spring 1943 and Warsaw Uprising in 1944.
Luftwaffe's black-and-white pictures give an eagle's eye view of the Polish capital as the densely packed, almost honeycomb-like city of tenement buildings, townhouses, and palaces was pounded by fighting into a landscape of rubble and roofless, hollowed-out shells.
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| Luftwaffe picture from late 1944 (after Warsaw Uprising) showing river Wisla - the Vistula at the bottom and Warsaw's downtown. In the right upper corner, there is a pale gray area that one year earlier belonged to the Warsaw Ghetto. |
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| Higher magnification of the picture shown above. Although the houses outside the former ghetto are also destroyed during the uprise, there is a certain difference in the gray color. |
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Higher magnification of the picture and the corner as shown above. Bonifraterska street. Workers are cleaning bricks and transporting them with the horse carriages. U góry narożnik dawnego Getta Warszawskiego, skrzyzowanie Bonifraterska-Świętojerska - Tanie cegły wydobywane z popiołów!
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Bonifraterska street. Houses and the area on the right of Bonifraterska look intact.
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Plac Krasińskich i ulica Bonifraterska. U góry narożnik Getta Bonifraterska-Świętojerska. Zobacz te same domy na kolorowym powojennym zdjeciu z pomnikiem Kilinskiego w Srodku zdjecia.
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| Plac Krasińskich (z lewej) i ulica Bonifraterska. Za pomnikiem Kilinskiego, narożnik Getta i ulica Bonifraterska-Świętojerska - Cegły na cokół wydobyte z popiołów! |
Ghetto area in colors, picture was taken after WW II.
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| Ghetto area in pictures taken after WW II. Red and blue lines indices places from where pictures were taken. The young girl stands on the roof of one of the houses around the Umschlagsplatz,. The houses are seen in the left picture. On the left from the houses, one can see a railway track with cattle wagons. |
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| 3-D animation from the movie Warszawa 1945 - after the liberation. |
