On the destruction of media buildings in war

Abstract

During periods of social unrest, revolution, civil war, or war, libraries, media, post and telecommunications buildings have always played, and indeed still play, a decisive role. One need only recall the bloody Easter Rising by Irish independence fighters in the General Post Office in Dublin in 1916, the battle for the telephone and telegraph buildings in Petrograd on 11 November 1917 during the Russian Revolution, the start of the Second World War with an attack by German troops on the Polish radio station Gleiwitz on 31 August 1939 as part of a faked enemy assault, and the skirmishes in the Polish Post Office near Westerplatte in Danzig on 1 September 1939.