Warschau
 Photograph of Warschau | |
| Population | 2.42M |
| State GDP | $0.75B |
| GDP/C | $310 |
| Culture | 
Polish-Volksdeutsch |
In-Game Description[edit | edit source]
Description when Warschau is German[edit | edit source]
In 1939, Warszawa was the proud capital of a defiant Polish nation, newly reborn in the cleansing fires of the First World War. Home to nearly 1.3 million people, including around 350,000 Jews, it was a bustling center of Polish culture and history.
For the Germans, all this was nothing more than a huge target painted on this long-suffering city. Warszawa has been subject to a programme of systematic depopulation and destruction since the day it was occupied. Some residents starved. Others fled to other cities, or into the countryside to eke out a living on whatever land wasn't occupied by great German slave plantations. Those 350,000 Jews, of course, met a far worse fate.
Now known to the Germans as Warschau, this once-glorious city lies prostrate, shrunken and demoralized. It could not be a clearer symbol of the fate of its nation.
Description when Warszawa is Polish[edit | edit source]
In 1939, Warszawa was the proud capital of a defiant Polish nation, newly reborn in the cleansing fires of the First World War. Home to nearly 1.3 million people, including around 350,000 Jews, it was a bustling center of Polish culture and history.
For the Germans, all this was nothing more than a huge target painted on this long-suffering city. Warszawa has been subject to a programme of systematic depopulation and destruction since the day it was occupied. Some residents starved. Others fled to other cities, or into the countryside to eke out a living on whatever land wasn't occupied by great German slave plantations. Those 350,000 Jews, of course, met a far worse fate.
But, for all this destruction, there is hope. Warszawa once again stands as the capital of an independent Poland, armed to the teeth and ready to once again confront the great juggernaut to the west. Nothing will bring back the old city, or turn the clock back to before 1939. But perhaps a new Warszawa can rise from the ashes of the old, just as Poland has.
