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Polski: Powstanie warszawskie. Major Sarnow (czwarty od lewej), dowódca niemieckiej jednostki niszczycielskiej (Sprengkommando), wydaje rozkazy swoim podwładnym. Sprengkommandos, złożone z członków tzw. Technische Nothilfe, były w pierwszym rzędzie odpowiedzialne za planowe niszczenie polskiej stolicy po powstaniu 1944 roku. Zdjęcie zostało wykonane przez Alfreda Mensebacha – niemieckiego architekta, volksdeutscha z Leszna, który dokumentował planowe burzenie polskiej stolicy. Album z jego zdjęciami został po wojnie odnaleziony w Lesznie. Oryginalny opis zdjęcia: „Wydawanie rozkazu jednostce wysadzającej”
English: Warsaw Uprising. This photo shows German demolition unit (Sprengkommando) and his commander – major Sarnow (in the middle, fourth from the left). Sprengkommandos, composed of members of the Technische Nothilfe, were primarily responsible for planned destruction of Warsaw after the 1944’ uprising. This photo was taken by Alfred Mensebach – German architect and volksdeutsch from Leszno who documented the planed destruction of Warsaw. His album with the photos from Warsaw Uprising was discovered in Leszno after the war by Polish authorities. Original description of the photo: “Issuing the orders for the Sprengkommando.
Date Unknown date
Source Edward Serwański, Irena Trawińska (red.): Zbrodnia niemiecka w Warszawie 1944 r. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Instytutu Zachodniego, 1946
Author Alfred Mensebach

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This photograph is in the public domain because according to the Art. 3 of copyright law of March 29, 1926 of the Republic of Poland and Art. 2 of copyright law of July 10, 1952 of the People's Republic of Poland, all photographs by Polish photographers (or published for the first time in Poland or simultaneously in Poland and abroad) published without a clear copyright notice before the law was changed on May 23, 1994 are assumed to be in the public domain in Poland.

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  3. it was in the public domain in its home country (Poland) on the URAA date (1 January 1996).
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