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 the city in retaliation.

Jul 4, 2020 · Walther von Brauchitsch, Adolf Hitler, and Erich Kempka (Hitler’s driver) during a visit to Kriegsmarine base in Wilhelmshaven on September 28, 1939. Apart from the valets, secretaries, and servants, in Poland, Hitler was accompanied by two of his personal adjutants: Wilhelm Brückner and Julius Schaub.

The Warsaw Ghetto (German: Warschauer Ghetto, officially Jüdischer Wohnbezirk in Warschau, 'Jewish Residential District in Warsaw'; Polish: getto warszawskie) was the largest of the Nazi ghettos during World War II and the Holocaust.

The Warsaw Uprising (Polish: powstanie warszawskie; German: Warschauer Aufstand), sometimes referred to as the August Uprising (Polish: powstanie sierpniowe), [15] was a major World War II operation by the Polish underground resistance to …

Warsaw was repeatedly hit, marking the first time a major European city was bombed systematically by an enemy air force. The Poles continued to hold out. During the aerial defense of Warsaw between September 1–6, the Poles downed over 80 German bombers.

The planned destruction of Warsaw had been on the cards before German tanks and troops rolled over the border into Poland at the start of September 1939. Three months before the invasion, a plan to replace the Polish capital with a small German town had caught the eye of Adolf Hitler.

During his remarks, the German president termed Hitler’s assault on Poland a “murderous war of annihilation,” part of a monstrous, continent wide war of conquest and extermination waged by National Socialist Germany.

Warsaw, the capital of Poland, surrendered on September 27. In early October, Adolf Hitler visited Warsaw to review his forces. This footage shows victorious German army units parading before Hitler in the streets of the devastated city.

Nov 6, 2024 · The leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) ordered the invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939. Hitler's refusal to withdraw brought a declaration of war from Britain and France on 3 September, and so began the Second World War (1939-45).

Although Hitler’s immediate response was not recorded, he had threatened the destruction of several European cities in the past. Only three days prior, he reportedly ordered Warsaw “to be crushed with great force” in the event of an uprising.