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The Bombing of Frampol happened during the Invasion of Poland
Invasion of Poland (1939)

The Invasion of Poland in 1939 precipitated World War II. It was carried out by Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak invasion of Poland contingent....
 in 1939. On 13 September, the town of Frampol
Frampol

Frampol [] is a town in Poland, in Lublin Voivodeship, in Bilgoraj County. It has 1,440 inhabitants .The town was founded in 1705, with a unique, highly symmetric :pl:Grafika:Plan_frampola.jpg of streets in the shape of concentric rectangles around a large central square....
 (Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
), with a population of 4,000 and without any military or industrial targets, nor any Polish Army defenders, was practically annihilated by German
Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the colloquial English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party , which established a Totalitarianism dictatorship that existed from 1933 to 1945....
 Luftwaffe
Luftwaffe

is a generic German term for an air force. It is also the official name for two of the four historic German air forces, the Wehrmacht air arm founded in 1933 and disbanded in 1946; and the current Bundeswehr air arm founded in 1956....
 bombing
Terror bombing

Terror bombing is a strategy of deliberately bombing and/or strafing civilian targets in order to break the morale of the enemy, make its civilian population panic, bend the enemy's political leadership to the attacker's will, or to "punish" an enemy....
 practice. Over 60% to 90% of town's infrastructure was destroyed; only two streets remained untouched, plus a few houses here and there.. As Norman Davies
Norman Davies

Ivor Norman Richard Davies British Academy is an England historian of Wales descent, noted for his publications on the history of Poland, History of Europe and the History of the United Kingdom....
 writes in "Europe at War 1939-1945: No Simple Victory?":Frampol was chosen partly because it was completely defenceless, and partly because its baroque street plan presented a perfect geometric grid The bombing of Frampol plays an important part in the short story "The Little Shoemakers" by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Nobel Prize in literature-winning Poland-born United States author and one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literature movement....


Frampol was chosen as an experimental object, because test bombers, flying at low speed, weren't endangered by AA fire.






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The Bombing of Frampol happened during the Invasion of Poland
Invasion of Poland (1939)

The Invasion of Poland in 1939 precipitated World War II. It was carried out by Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak invasion of Poland contingent....
 in 1939. On 13 September, the town of Frampol
Frampol

Frampol [] is a town in Poland, in Lublin Voivodeship, in Bilgoraj County. It has 1,440 inhabitants .The town was founded in 1705, with a unique, highly symmetric :pl:Grafika:Plan_frampola.jpg of streets in the shape of concentric rectangles around a large central square....
 (Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
), with a population of 4,000 and without any military or industrial targets, nor any Polish Army defenders, was practically annihilated by German
Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the colloquial English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party , which established a Totalitarianism dictatorship that existed from 1933 to 1945....
 Luftwaffe
Luftwaffe

is a generic German term for an air force. It is also the official name for two of the four historic German air forces, the Wehrmacht air arm founded in 1933 and disbanded in 1946; and the current Bundeswehr air arm founded in 1956....
 bombing
Terror bombing

Terror bombing is a strategy of deliberately bombing and/or strafing civilian targets in order to break the morale of the enemy, make its civilian population panic, bend the enemy's political leadership to the attacker's will, or to "punish" an enemy....
 practice. Over 60% to 90% of town's infrastructure was destroyed; only two streets remained untouched, plus a few houses here and there.. As Norman Davies
Norman Davies

Ivor Norman Richard Davies British Academy is an England historian of Wales descent, noted for his publications on the history of Poland, History of Europe and the History of the United Kingdom....
 writes in "Europe at War 1939-1945: No Simple Victory?":Frampol was chosen partly because it was completely defenceless, and partly because its baroque street plan presented a perfect geometric grid
Frampol Bombing
The bombing of Frampol plays an important part in the short story "The Little Shoemakers" by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Nobel Prize in literature-winning Poland-born United States author and one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literature movement....


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"Frampol was chosen as an experimental object, because test bombers, flying at low speed, weren't endangered by AA fire. Also, the centrally placed town hall was an ideal orientation point for the crews. We watched possibility of orientation after visible signs, and also the size of village, what guaranteed that bombs nevertheless fall down on Frampol. From one side it should make easier the note of probe, from second side it should confirm the efficiency of used bombs." - Wolfgang Schreyer
Wolfgang Schreyer

Wolfgang Schreyer is a Germans writer of fiction, historic adventures mixed with documentary, science fiction for TV shows and movies and is best known as the author of over 20 adventure stories....
's book "Eyes on the sky" (Augen am Himmel)

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