Rare 3-D film shows Warsaw devastated after WWII

[July 28, 2010]  WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Polish historians have created an unusual 3-D 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, says it is mainly meant for young people who do not realize the degree to which Poland's capital was destroyed from 1939-45.

He said Wednesday that it took 40 specialists and two years to make the five-minute aerial view sequence which documents the city's 1944 doomed struggle against the occupying Nazi Germans. It will be shown at the museum.

Specialists used historic images to create a computer simulation of a flight over the city in early 1945 that shows collapsed bridges, districts of roofless, burned-out houses and the Warsaw Ghetto as a flat sea of rubble.

[Associated Press]

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