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Polski: 8 września 1944. Niemiecka jednostka niszczycielska (Sprengkommando) przygotowuje się do wysadzenia Zamku Królewskiego w Warszawie. Zdjęcie zostało wykonane przez Alfreda Mensebacha – niemieckiego architekta, volksdeutscha z Leszna, który dokumentował planowe burzenie polskiej stolicy. Album z jego zdjęciami został po wojnie odnaleziony w Lesznie. Oryginalny opis zdjęcia: ”Wysadzanie b. Zamku Królewskiego nad Wisłą”.
English: Warsaw Uprising, 8th September 1944. German demolition unit (Sprengkommando) is preparing to blow up the Royal Castle in Warsaw. This photo was taken by Alfred Mensebach – German architect and volksdeutsch from Leszno who documented the planed destruction of Warsaw. His album with the photos from Warsaw Uprising was discovered in Leszno after the war by Polish authorities. Original description of the photo: “Blowing up of former Royal Castle on the Vistula river”.
Deutsch: Warschauer Aufstand, 8. September 1944. Das deutsche Sprengkommando bereitet die Sprengung des Warschauer Königsschlosses vor. Dieses Foto wurde von Alfred Mensebach - dem deutschen Architekten und Volksdeutschen aus Leszno aufgenommen, der die geplante Zerstörung Warschaus dokumentierte. Sein Album mit den Fotos vom Warschauer Aufstand wurde nach dem Krieg von den polnischen Behörden in Leszno entdeckt. Originalbeschreibung des Fotos: „Sprengung des ehemaligen Königsschlosses an der Weichsel“.
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Source Edward Serwański, Irena Trawińska (red.): Zbrodnia niemiecka w Warszawie 1944 r. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Instytutu Zachodniego, 1946
Author Alfred Mensebach

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This photograph 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 to be in the public domain in Poland.

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