01/08/2020
Warsaw Uprising 1944
▶️ 🇵🇱 01/08-03/10 1944🇵🇱
August, 1st 1944 General 'Bor' Komorowski, commander of the Polish Underground Home Army (Armia Krajowa, AK), sets the beginning of the Uprising in Warsaw against the German occupying forces at 'W-hour'; 5:00 p.m. The uprising is expected to last about a week......
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Warsaw Uprising was a major World War II operation, in the summer of 1944, by the Polish underground resistance, led by the Home Army.
Hitler’s plan was to wipe out the city from the surface.
Warsaw's insurgents an estimated 40,000 soldiers, including 4,000 women, have only enough weapons for 2,500 fighters. They are facing a 15,000-strong German garrison which will grow to a force of 30,000, armed with tanks, planes, and artillery.
Warsaw stood alone.
Without Allied support, the Home Army split into small, disconnected units and was forced to surrender when its supplies gave out (October 2). Bor-Komorowski and his forces were taken prisoner, and the Germans then systematically deported the remainder of the city’s population and destroyed the city itself.
It was 63 days of a heroic and tragic struggle to liberate Warsaw - the Capital of Poland (once known as a Paris of the North).
After Warsaw Uprising There began a massive and organized looting campaign of the city by Germans. They entered the ruins and striped them of anything that had not already been taken by the Wehrmacht, SS, and Soviet and Ukrainian collaborators.
Postwar Polish assessments claim that 33,000 railway wagons filled with furniture, personal belongings and factory equipment left Warsaw.
After everything of value was carried away, entire blocks of abandoned houses were set on fire. Monuments and government buildings were blown up by special German troops known as Verbrennungs und Vernichtungskommando.
Although the exact number of casualties remains unknown, it is estimated that between 150,000 and 200,000 Polish civilians died, mostly from mass executions. about 16,000 members of the Polish resistance were killed and about 6,000 badly wounded. Jews being harboured by Poles were exposed by German house-to-house clearances and mass evictions of entire neighbourhoods.
Over 85% of the Warsaw city was destroyed by January 1945.
On the left bank of the Vistula River (filled with blood) left around couple hundreds of citizens.
The witnesess still live among us and The heroes who fought for liberation alive once we REMEMBER about this most cruel time.
