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Sunday, January 26, 2014

Some photos from Warsaw captured in 1947 after the war

In 1947, Henry N. Cobb, a student of architecture in the U.S., started a study of Europe devastated by World War II. Cobb has developed a special passion for Warsaw, the city almost completely destroyed by the Nazis and wanted to contribute to its reconstruction but did not get because of the outbreak of the Cold War.
Following the uprising in Warsaw in 1944, started the resistance movement during the Nazi occupation of Poland, Hitler decided to ignore the terms of the surrender of Poland and ordered the city to be razed to the ground and the collections of museums and libraries to content be transported to Germany to be burned
Warsaw were blown special troops known as Verbrennungs-und Vernichtungskommando (Detachments burning and destruction). The Polish capital was 85% destroyed.
In 2011, the firm of architects Henry N. Cobb owned was chosen to collaborate on the design of buildings in Warsaw. The Cobb visited the Polish capital after more than 60 years and brought with him the photos he made in 1947 and no one knew the only color photographs Warsaw in ruins.

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