In Diary entry 39, Jesus warned St. Faustina that He would send a chastisement upon the most beautiful city in her country, comparable to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Jesus instructed her: "My child, unite yourself closely to Me during the Sacrifice and offer My Blood and My Wounds to My Father in expiation for the sins of that city." The city is widely understood to be Warsaw, which between the First and Second World Wars had become one of the great capitals of abortion in Europe. While Sister Faustina lived and prayed, the city was spared. But barely a year after her death in 1938, Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, and by the end of World War II, Warsaw was almost completely destroyed — over 85% of the city lay in ruins, eerily echoing the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah.