Warsaw Uprising Ends

30th September 1944: The final hours of the Polish Home Army as their extraordinary defiance, against the odds, ends in the rubble of Warsaw

Sep 30, 2024

∙ Paid

A German patrol cautiously enters the centre of Warsaw, the scene of utter devastation.

The Warsaw Uprising had been planned as a brief insurgency by the underground Polish Home Army, intended to last for a few days before the Red Army Army joined them in sweeping the Germans out of Poland. It had turned out very differently.

The Poles were on their own,…

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