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Warsaw

A Schütte-Lanz airship bombing Warsaw in Russian Poland. From a painting by Hans Rudolf Schulze.
Text:
Hans Rudolf Schulze
Reverse:
Message dated and postmarked July 22, 1915.
Luftschiff Schütte-Lanz Warschau bombardierend
Nach einem Gemälde von Prof. Hans Rudolf Schulze, Berlin
Airship Schütte-Lanz bombing Warsaw
After a painting by Prof. Hans Rudolf Schulze, Berlin
Deutscher Luftflotten-Verein für Schaffung einer starken Deutschen Luftflotte und Förderung der Luftfahrerschule! Jahresbeitrag: einschl. Vereinzeitschrift ‘Die Luftflotte’ mindestens 3,– Mt. Berlin M, 57. Frobenstrasse 27.
German Air Forces Association for the creation of a German air fleet and to start promoting an aviation school! Annual fee: including club magazine 'The Air Force' at least 3.00. Mt Berlin M, 57 Frobenstrasse 27.

A Schütte-Lanz airship bombing Warsaw in Russian Poland. From a painting by Hans Rudolf Schulze.

Image text

Hans Rudolf Schulze



Reverse:

Message dated and postmarked July 22, 1915.

Luftschiff Schütte-Lanz Warschau bombardierend

Nach einem Gemälde von Prof. Hans Rudolf Schulze, Berlin



Airship Schütte-Lanz bombing Warsaw

After a painting by Prof. Hans Rudolf Schulze, Berlin



Postcard reverse with text:

Deutscher Luftflotten-Verein für Schaffung einer starken Deutschen Luftflotte und Förderung der Luftfahrerschule! Jahresbeitrag: einschl. Vereinzeitschrift ‘Die Luftflotte’ mindestens 3,– Mt. Berlin M, 57. Frobenstrasse 27.



German Air Forces Association for the creation of a German air fleet and to start promoting an aviation school! Annual fee: including club magazine 'The Air Force' at least 3.00. Mt Berlin M, 57 Frobenstrasse 27.

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Warsaw, principle city of Polish Russia and third largest of the Russian Empire, lies on the Vistula River.

Germany's advance into Russia halted within a dozen miles of Warsaw by mid-October, 1914. As the Russian line strengthened German commanders Hindenburg and Ludendorff realized their danger and ordered a retreat on October 20. Refugees, many of them Jews, sought safety in Warsaw and Vilna as homes, synagogues, and shops were looted.

In November, the 'Petrograd to Poland' Committee delivered warm clothing and other necessities to Warsaw, and food to other distribution points in Poland.

In January 1915, German forces again threatened Warsaw, being held 40 miles from it.

After the German-Austro-Hungarian breakthrough of the Gorlice-Tarnow Campaign, the city was the greatest loss of the long Russian retreat through the summer and into the autumn of 1915. Warsaw fell to the Germans on August 5, 1915. In her Memories of the Russian Court, Anna Viroubova recorded that 'It was a terrible day when the Emperor, white and trembling, brought this news to the Empress as we sat at tea on her balcony in the warm autumn air.' Viroubova wrote that Warsaw's fall made it clear to Tsar Nicholas that he needed to take command of the Russian Army himself, relieving Grand Duke Nicholas.

A general strike in Warsaw, Cracow, and Lemberg on February 14, 1918 greeted news that the Central Powers had signed a treaty at Brest-Litovsk with the Ukrainian People's Republic that ceded Cholm to the new nation five days earlier. Polish nationals hoped for their own nation, one that included Cholm.

In October, Poles demanded an independent nation unifying ethnic Poles in Russian Poland and the lands of the swiftly-disintegrating Austro-Hungarian Empire. Warsaw would be its capital.

Warsaw is a city in Russia.

A sample pie chart graphic

Statistics for Warsaw (1)

Type Statistic
Population 771,000