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by jakubadamw 697 days ago
The article does actually mention that:

“What was left was methodically looted and then razed to the ground by the German Vernichtungs- and Verbrenungskommando – even as late as mid-January 1945.”

Vernichtungskommando is the specific German unit that was responsible for the systematic demolition of the remaining buildings.

The other one, Verbrenungskommando, was responsible for the cover-up of the mass murder of the tens of thousands of Warsaw's civilians that had just been carried out by the German army¹.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbrennungskommando_Warschau