German forces dedicated an unprecedented effort to razing the city, destroying 80–90% of Warsaw’s buildings, including the vast majority of museums, art galleries, theaters, churches, parks, and historical buildings such as castles and palaces. Many valuable old books and scrolls among about sixteen million volumes from National Library, museums and palaces burnt indiscriminately by Germans in Poland during World War II. They deliberately demolished, burned, or stole an immense part of Warsaw’s cultural heritage. Warsaw was kept under ceaseless barrage by Nazi artillery and air power for sixty-three days and nights
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