Chór Juranda - Warszawo, moja Warszawo 1932

The pre-war revelers group Chór Juranda, established in 1932, sings the tango-confession of their love for Warsaw: "Warszawo, piękna Warszawo" (Warsaw, o beautiful Warsaw!/ You're with me day and night).
The pre-ar city, often called "Paris of the East) was almost totally annihilated by the Nazi fury between 1939 - 1945. At first,the air-rides in September 1939 destroyed the big part of the central Warsaw, although it was supposed to be protected by the status of the "open city".
In april 1943, diuring the uprising of the remnants of Jews, still alive in the Ghetto, another huge part of the central Warsaw was destroyed to the ground. The end ot the city's apocalypse was the Warsaw Uprising in August-October 1944. After it's fall, and according to the mad & urious Hitler's order - that the fighting city it must be erased from the map - Warsaw was systematically burnt or blown up house after the house, street after the street. Third Reich, just before its own death, has devoured its last victim, while Stalin's Red Army was waiting on the other bank of the Vistula river, watching in peace the agony of the capital of the nation, who had beaten them in 1920, during the Polish-Bolshevik war. What a story, what a city...

The photos show the steets rescued only on the handful of photographs and movies from before 1939.

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[SexyPeter1]

Hiroshi: Poland is making it's comeback. Poland is a major country in Europe and it's political, economic and cultural influence will grow. There cannot be a Europe without Poland !!!

[Kakadu81]

This is not only my hope, I live in Warsaw, and I agree, a lot of people are about nothing more than money and careers. But such people have always been present in Warsaw even in Her pre-war days.

At the same time, there are plenty of wonderful people here, who feel the spirit of Warsaw nad love this city. And this people are growing in number.

Cheers

[123leszekp]

@barokkorab

Hmmm, to nieuniknione skutki tzw "postępu" ,

pozdrawiam serdecznie

[barokkorab]

Serdecznie dziękuję za informacje i mile pozdrawiam.

[Tom3421]

@barokkorab Istnieje niemiecki kolorowy film z przedwojennej Warszawy z 1938 roku. Tutaj klatka filmowa (w google grafika: Warszawa 1938). Film znajduje się w archiwum w Niemczech. Jest też polski kolorowy film z przedwojennej Warszawy z 1938 roku. Znajduje się w Polsce. Klatki do obejrzenia (google grafika: Warszawa Bogusław Magiera). Szkoda, że tych filmów nie ma (jeszcze) w internecie i nikt ich nie pokazuje.

[Yankeesfanforlife5]

@johnbunny135

Warsaw was beatiful city before World War 2. The Russians basterds waited across little Warsaw burn down to ground.

[barokkorab]

To miasto pokolenia moich Rodziców. Już go nie ma. Niestety...

[TommyPG1990]

@BQXXII what the fuck are you writing? Ate to much propaganda? By the way you Americans are as bad as the Nazis while Nazis in Germany can't find acess to the community and please, learn to write words like kurwa and nasze.

[BQXXII]

KURVA NIEMCY KURVA NIEMCY NASE MIASTO TERAZ GOWNO

[1928piotrus]

te przesliczne tango dostalem od "ginterki". Bylem em ucznien szkoly powszechnej im Sw. Stanislawa kostki, tuz obok kosciola Sw.Krzyza. Moja opiekunka klasy byla pani Ginterowa, uczyla nas jezyka polskiego.. W 1939 ksiadz Archutowski dyrektor szkoly zostal rozstrzelany na Pamirach.Dyplom ukoczenia szkoly to  czerwiec 1939 Dziwna byla klsa,byl tam Krzysztof Radziwil, byl Kraushar, potomek znakomitego historyka pochodzenia zydowskiego, bylem ja .Pania Ginterowa pamietam do dzis.

[ABookwormAndProud]

Completely heartbreaking, considering everything that happened not long afterwards...