Warsaw during WW2

Long ago, here in London, I bought a second hand book about Warsaw between 1939 and 1945:

 

Here are a few pictures: 

Hitler visiting Warsaw

The Column of Zygmunt III Waza was destroyed by the Nazi during the war. According to the article linked in the previous sentence, when this important landmark was unveiled in 1644, there was no other modern monument to present a layman on a column in the whole Europe. The 22-metre column, now granite,  was made of so-called 'wietokrzyski marble', a kind of limestone from the quarries around Kielce and Checiny in the Swietokrzyski Region of Poland (which is where I come from, Dear Reader).The king (made in bronze) atop the column is presented as a knight and ruler. The cross he is holding idicates submission to the catholic faith. What a great way to pay tribute to one's father and to promote dynastic pocitics by Wladyslaw IV!

Soon after the war the column was rebuilt and has again been a favourite picture-taking spot!
It would take me too long to dig out my own pictures to put them here and now, as you probably understand, Dear Reader.