Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The planned destruction of Warsaw refers to the largely-realized plans by Nazi Germany to raze the city. The plan was put into full motion after the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. The uprising had infuriated German leaders who now wanted to make an example of the city, which they had long before selected for a major reconstruction as part of their plans to Germanise eastern Europe:The city must completely disappear from the surface of the earth and serve only as a transport station for the Wehrmacht. No stone can remain standing. Every building must be razed to its foundation.Warsaw has to be pacified, that is, razed to the ground.Even before the uprising, the Germans knew Warsaw would fall into Allied hands in a matter of few months. In spite of this, unprecedented effort was dedicated to the destruction of the city. This decision tied up considerable resources, which in theory could have been used on the Eastern Front and on the newly opened Western Front after the Normandy landings. The Germans destroyed 80%-90% of the buildings in Warsaw while an immense part of the cultural heritage was deliberately demolished, burned to the ground, or stolen.Currently, more than half of the antiques and museum objects consisting of Polish heritage stolen by Germans in 1944 have not been returned to Poland. After the war, extensive work was put into rebuilding the city according to pre-war plans and historical documents. As with most of Poland, the city was rebuilt without any German help, unlike in Stalingrad and other cities, where German forced labor was used during and after the war as part of war reparations."@en }
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- Planned_destruction_of_Warsaw abstract "The planned destruction of Warsaw refers to the largely-realized plans by Nazi Germany to raze the city. The plan was put into full motion after the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. The uprising had infuriated German leaders who now wanted to make an example of the city, which they had long before selected for a major reconstruction as part of their plans to Germanise eastern Europe:The city must completely disappear from the surface of the earth and serve only as a transport station for the Wehrmacht. No stone can remain standing. Every building must be razed to its foundation.Warsaw has to be pacified, that is, razed to the ground.Even before the uprising, the Germans knew Warsaw would fall into Allied hands in a matter of few months. In spite of this, unprecedented effort was dedicated to the destruction of the city. This decision tied up considerable resources, which in theory could have been used on the Eastern Front and on the newly opened Western Front after the Normandy landings. The Germans destroyed 80%-90% of the buildings in Warsaw while an immense part of the cultural heritage was deliberately demolished, burned to the ground, or stolen.Currently, more than half of the antiques and museum objects consisting of Polish heritage stolen by Germans in 1944 have not been returned to Poland. After the war, extensive work was put into rebuilding the city according to pre-war plans and historical documents. As with most of Poland, the city was rebuilt without any German help, unlike in Stalingrad and other cities, where German forced labor was used during and after the war as part of war reparations.".
- Q22796 abstract "The planned destruction of Warsaw refers to the largely-realized plans by Nazi Germany to raze the city. The plan was put into full motion after the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. The uprising had infuriated German leaders who now wanted to make an example of the city, which they had long before selected for a major reconstruction as part of their plans to Germanise eastern Europe:The city must completely disappear from the surface of the earth and serve only as a transport station for the Wehrmacht. No stone can remain standing. Every building must be razed to its foundation.Warsaw has to be pacified, that is, razed to the ground.Even before the uprising, the Germans knew Warsaw would fall into Allied hands in a matter of few months. In spite of this, unprecedented effort was dedicated to the destruction of the city. This decision tied up considerable resources, which in theory could have been used on the Eastern Front and on the newly opened Western Front after the Normandy landings. The Germans destroyed 80%-90% of the buildings in Warsaw while an immense part of the cultural heritage was deliberately demolished, burned to the ground, or stolen.Currently, more than half of the antiques and museum objects consisting of Polish heritage stolen by Germans in 1944 have not been returned to Poland. After the war, extensive work was put into rebuilding the city according to pre-war plans and historical documents. As with most of Poland, the city was rebuilt without any German help, unlike in Stalingrad and other cities, where German forced labor was used during and after the war as part of war reparations.".