A little background: Warsaw Ghetto was a district created by Germans to brought Jews in. Citizens of this thing were living in horryfying conditions, mainly due to high population density (146 000 people /square kilometer – about 7 people for one room) and rationing the food which didn’t cross the line of 400kcal per day for an adult person. In 1943 Jews organized an uprising that in the end failed. German then decided to wipe out Ghetto and all the Jews in it, to the end of the ocupation this place served as a nice spot for germans to carry mass executions of Polish people and captured Jews (who weren’t yet killed or sent to death camps).
v8powerage
Warsaw was completely destroyed much worse shape than Berlin, close to hiroshima/nagasaki level of damage.
Stop_calling_me_matt
Literally just finished reading The Pianist. Difficult to comprehend the extent to which Germans destroyed the place until you see something like this
addctd2badideas
Fitting as tonight is Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) eve.
piermicha
So with Himmler’s orders to raze every building, why did the church escape destruction? Any documentation of the reasons?
Theuniguy
The Pols in Warsaw "I hope you didn’t come to Warsaw to see old buildings"
ZW5pZ21h
Why wasn’t that church destroyed?
It just looks so crazy that everything around is literally leveled
![St. Augustin's church among ruins of Warsaw Ghetto, 1945. [1001x768]](https://i.redd.it/o6z5iru19yt41.jpg)
KEKISTOWSKI
A little background: Warsaw Ghetto was a district created by Germans to brought Jews in. Citizens of this thing were living in horryfying conditions, mainly due to high population density (146 000 people /square kilometer – about 7 people for one room) and rationing the food which didn’t cross the line of 400kcal per day for an adult person. In 1943 Jews organized an uprising that in the end failed. German then decided to wipe out Ghetto and all the Jews in it, to the end of the ocupation this place served as a nice spot for germans to carry mass executions of Polish people and captured Jews (who weren’t yet killed or sent to death camps).
v8powerage
Warsaw was completely destroyed much worse shape than Berlin, close to hiroshima/nagasaki level of damage.
Stop_calling_me_matt
Literally just finished reading The Pianist. Difficult to comprehend the extent to which Germans destroyed the place until you see something like this
addctd2badideas
Fitting as tonight is Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) eve.
piermicha
So with Himmler’s orders to raze every building, why did the church escape destruction? Any documentation of the reasons?
Theuniguy
The Pols in Warsaw "I hope you didn’t come to Warsaw to see old buildings"
ZW5pZ21h
Why wasn’t that church destroyed?
It just looks so crazy that everything around is literally leveled