Warsaw definitely “SAW WAR”

[michamikoajczak]

Why don't u come to Kraków next, while you're in Poland? Here we have probably the best preserved historic monuments, and really beautiful ones too

[theozziepotato]

i wanna go around europe like this some day!

[dennis_duran]

“Younger than the USA”
It’s younger than some people!!

[donbrashsux]

Yes Poland suffered horrifically in WW2

[liamweaver]

It wasn’t the bombing per se that caused this. It was taken apart, brick by brick, shingle by shingle, and window pane by window pane, by Nazi engineers after the failed Warsaw uprising in reprisal.

[avaraee]

Hey Geography now :) you never fail to make me smile everyday! Thank you :)

[nasion]

OH CRAP MAN, YOU ARE IN WARSAW? I'd wish to come there and give you a high Five.

I'm Silesian hehe

[usernamejuliaisalreadytaken]

I was just visiting family in Warsaw a couple of weeks ago! I hope you saw all the right places :)

[misticthanatholog]

Check out Wrocław, the city with beautiful Old Town, a lot of cultural places and history of Polish, German and Czech influences :)

[Ronenlahat]

Poland rebuilt things as they were, Germany rebuilt things completely new

[memexpert]

meanwhile everything in Shenzhen is less than 40 years old, a lot of people in China today are older than Shenzhen

[lifecycles]

I was In poland 2 and half years ago. It is the first "BIG" country I have ever gone through (went to warsaw, krakow and to the polands highest peek before going to czechia). I personally loved Warsaw and it is still mindblowing till to this day.

[kam]

Yea during the warsaw uprising the germans letteraly wanated to wipe the city of the map and used some of the're heavyest artillery on the city turning it in to a smoldering wreck, things Like the karl and sturmtiger were used, not the gustav or dora as they were elsewere

[peppymia]

Same for many cities and towns all over Germany.

[dorianbrlic]

similar thing happend to Zagreb in 1889 and almost the whole city had to be rebuild, but the thing is that it wasnt bombed, it was hit BY.AN.EARTHQUAKE.

[OstblockLatina]

True enough. About 90, 90-ish % turned into ash, a few percent very heavily damaged. The remainder bulldozed by the Soviet-controlled People's Republic of Poland government to build new Real Socialist architecture. Some stuff reconstructed with the help of Canaletto's paintings from the 17th century (that's why the Old Town looks the way it did just then, because anything it looked like either before or after is not known, due to the document archives totally wiped out by the war occupants). Oh, almost forgot. The reconstruction materials came to a large degree from the retrieved territory of Silesia. That is the actual buildings of artistic, historical or just practical significance were put apart to turn them back into piles of bricks and then import them to Warsaw to rebuild the old stuff/build the new stuff there.

[Rafaelable]

That applies probably to half of european cities. In my hometown Wesel only 3 buildings were preserved. The town was founded around 1200

[ginolord]

I recognize the tall yellow building with the red roof behind you, from a picture of warsaw after being bombed, they reconstructed it really well

[dequashonfontaloosi]

Mate youd love Edinburgh come visit sometime🇬🇧

[kev]

Classic Warsaw is the best! They should keep rebuilding more of it!