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Drawings burned in 1944
During the Planned destruction of Warsaw by Germans, around 80% of libraries were carefully burned by the Verbrennungskommandos (Burning Detachments), whose mission and specialty was to burn Warsaw.[1][2]

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  1. ↑ Maria Witt (September 15 and October 15, 2005). The Zaluski Collection in Warsaw. The Strange Life of One of the Greatest European Libraries of the Eighteenth Century. FYI France. Retrieved on 2008-02-17.
  2. ↑ Rebecca Knuth (2006). Burning books and leveling libraries: extremist violence and cultural destruction, p. 166. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 02-75990-07-9

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