Image:Burned-out Royal Castle in Warsaw 1940.jpg

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Description
English: Burned-out Royal Castle in Warsaw. Photo taken after the Castle was burned by Nazis in September 1939 but before Warsaw Uprising in August 1944 when the Castle were totally destroved.
Polski: Wypalony Zamek Królewski w Warszawie. Zdięcie zrobione po zdobyciu Warszawy przez hitlerowców we wrześniu 1939 roku, ale przed Powstaniem Warszawskim w sierpniu 1944 kiedy Zamek zostały zrównane z ziemią.
Source

Jerzy Piorkowski (1957). Miasto Nieujarzmione. Warszawa: Iskry. no ISBN.

Date

1940

Author

unknown

Permission
(Reusing this image)

PD-Polish

Other versions Similar shot: Image:Kolumna Zygmunta + Zamek Krolewski (1941).jpg

Camera location

52.247231° N, 21.013386° E

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Public domain This image is in the public domain because according to the Art.3 of copyright law of March 29, 1926 of the Republic of Poland and Art. 2 of copyright law of July 10, 1952 of the People's Republic of Poland, all photographs by Polish photographers (or published for the first time in Poland or simultaneously in Poland and abroad) published without a clear copyright notice before the law was changed on May 23, 1994 are assumed public domain.
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