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Around 80% of Warsaw was razed to the ground by the occupation forces before and then during the Warsaw Uprising. This included a campaign of door-to-door civilian executions.
The occupation also featured the destruction or plunder of all kinds of Polish art.
Wikipedia attributes the claim that German officials estimated "over 90%" of art previously in Poland was in their possession to Polityka III Rzeszy w okupowanej Polsce, Tom II (Politics of the Third Reich in Occupied Poland, Part Two) (in Polish); I cannot verify this as I sadly do not speak or read Polish.
One statue in particular torn down was of Adam Mickiewicz, a 19th Polish poet.
Poland endured attempted cultural extermination, and it is well documented and sourced.
The Wikipedia article is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_culture_during_World_War_II
Supplementing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Poland_(1939%E2%80%931945)
See this for a particular event which highlights the despicable nature of both the Nazis and the Soviets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Uprising
Wikipedia is not a perfect source; it does, however, make for a quality source aggregate. This entire article is thoroughly sourced by proper writings and the sorts. Others that have been more objectionable tend to be about modern figures with limited to minimal or low quality sourcing; a chief example of which is the Project Veritas article citing mainstream news as to why Project Veritas is alt-right.
Anyone can list sources. Hell, anyone can write a book. At the end of the day there is only so much you can do to source information; having a wide variety of high quality writers with direct sources goes a long way. If you want to dismiss this information, you should go through each claim that you disagree with and it's sources to rebut it, or find stronger sources that say things to the contrary.
Did you read my post at all? I'm not linking you to the wikipedia articles for Wikipedia but for the sources to each claim, which are numerous. Go deal with the original sources then report back.
The original claim is that the atrocities listed here are actually Soviet atrocities that have been attributed to the Nazis. The obvious implication by this is that the Nazis did not do this.
My post is a refutation of that; it includes specific examples of the cultural destruction the Nazis engaged in, as well as violent atrocities, and it also includes wider lists or stats as ported in the Wikipedia articles, with direct links in those articles already to their sources, which are NOT necessarily subject to the same issues with Wikipedia articles. Look at those sources and attack their accuracy, not Wikipedia; at least in this instance.
The Nazis committed profound atrocities and lead campaigns of extensive attempted cultural and ethnic extermination. The Soviets also did this. All players in the war committed atrocities, yes, but there are obvious aggressors and players whose agendas were far more malicious. The two worst by far were the Soviets and the Nazis. Close behind was Imperial Japan, followed by the US and UK (more or less together) with not negligible atrocities themselves, but far from cultural or ethnic extermination. That's my overall view; I'm not fundamentally here to argue all of that because that is an exhaustively large argument, and while I could do it the time involved would be tremendous. As such, I'm only really staking the first part here. The point of the second is to show that I am not trying to hold the Nazis to a unique standard any more than any of the other factions.
Indeed, I do wish the Western European Allies had upheld their treaty with Poland and demanded its freedom from the Soviets. Had the Soviets refused I believe the proper course would be for the Allies to go to war with them; it would have been a bloodbath, yes, but I believe it would have been the right thing to do.