@article{5e55e21f-9169-4667-a33a-f55f3a58d636,
author = {Kinga Racoń-Leja},
title = {Traces of the second world war in European cities},
journal = {Technical Transactions},
volume = {2013},
number = {Architecture Zeszyt 1-A (3) 2013},
year = {2014},
issn = {0011-4561},
pages = {101-118},keywords = {World War II; war devastation in European cities; bombing raids on cities; city rebuilding and reconstructing},
abstract = {This paper presents the diverse typology of devastation in European cities during the Second World War. In practice, total war meant ruthless destruction of cities – those situated on the frontline defended as strongholds and those blown up on purpose. The bombing raids which destroyed Warsaw, Rotterdam, Coventry and other cities wrote a separate and unusually tragic chapter in the history of atrocities. Carpet and precise bombings organized by the Allies in retaliation within the adopted tactic of weakening the enemy’s morale ruined a number of German cities – Dresden makes a particularly drastic example in the descendants’ memory. In the years of World War II, a huge part of Europe’s urban heritage was lost irretrievably.},
doi = {10.4467/2353737XCT.14.006.1984},
url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/czasopismo-techniczne/article/traces-of-the-second-world-war-in-european-cities}
}