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Warsaw - the fight goes on

14th September 1944: Poles fighting with the Red Army get into Warsaw to join the fight - even as the remaining Soviet forces stand away

Sep 14, 2024
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A two-tonne mortar bomb hits the Prudential Building in Warsaw on the 28th August. From a famous sequence of images taken Sylwester Braun - who saw the shell in the sky before it hit.

The battle inside Warsaw continued. Everyone remaining in the city was at the mercy of German bombs and artillery. Gradually, they were wearing down the Polish Home Army, w…

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