Rare 3D film shows Warsaw devastated after WWII

Rare 3D film shows Warsaw devastated after WWII





In this still from the film 'City of Ruins,'
provided by The Warsaw Uprising Museum and Platige Image, the ruins of
Warsaw are seen in 1944 after the uprising.WARSAW, Poland — Polish historians have created an
unusual 3D film that documents the shocking sea of rubble that Warsaw
was reduced to during World War II.
Jan Oldakowski, the director of the Warsaw Uprising Museum, said the
film "City of Ruins" is mainly meant for young people who do not realize
the degree to which Poland's capital was destroyed from 1939-45.

"Young people do not understand what it means that Warsaw was in
ruins; they think it was just a few collapsed houses," Oldakowski said
during a showing of the film to reporters in Warsaw. "Nor were we, at
the museum, fully aware of what the city looked like."
The destruction was the result of bombings carried out by Nazi
Germany, which invaded Poland in 1939 and occupied it for six years,
killing millions of people. Most of the damage resulted from the German
army's revenge for the city's 1944 uprising against its brutal rule.
Although the uprising failed, it remains an important element of
Polish national identity. The heroism shown by the insurgents -- among
them women and teenagers -- is a source of deep pride to this day.
Oldakowski said it took 40 specialists two years to make the
five-minute 3D aerial view sequence, a simulation of an imaginary flight
over the city right after the war in 1945.
It will be shown at the museum, which documents the 1944 uprising and
is a major draw for tourists and students from across the country. Last
year, it had some 500,000 visitors.
Michal Gryn, from the Platige Image studio which made the film, said
the team was not aware at first of the challenge before them in the form
of the masses of documentary material they had to go through.
"It was a unique project to build a 3D model of authentic city ruins
and make five minutes of film from it," Gryn said. "I don't think that
anyone in the world has done this."
His team took a helicopter flight over contemporary Warsaw to film
base material. They filled it in with detail from some 2,000 historic
pictures, films and paintings to recreate Warsaw as it was after the
war. The result is a computer simulation that shows collapsed bridges
along the Vistula River, whole districts of roofless, burned-out houses
and the Warsaw Ghetto as a flat sea of rubble.
An inscription that closes the film says that before the war some 1.3
million people lived in Warsaw, some 900,000 at the start of the
uprising and just 1,000 amid the ruins in 1945.
Before the war, some 10 percent of the city's population was Jewish.

Looks like stalingrad.

Or London--or well, any city bombed to bits.

Well I say Stalingrad because when it was bombed the buildings dint explode like in western cities and topple over. The roofs caved inward with the shells and left little debris in the streets. Plus the snow, reminds me of Stalingrad. Wasn't Schindler's factory in Warsaw? I can't remeber.

Think Jihadists could have done such a thing;--plan ahead and stand inside all the buildings and Jihaded at the same time, producing a glorious YOU MUST BOW TO THE BLAST?

What?

BOW BEFORE THE BLAST!