Warsaw Rising
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
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Warsaw Rising (1 Aug.–2 Oct. 1944) As the
Red Army advanced into Poland in the summer of 1944, Soviet contacts in Warsaw encouraged the underground Home Army to stage an uprising. This was supported by the exiled Polish government in London, which wanted to liberate the city with Polish resources in order to strengthen its own bargaining position against the Soviet Union. Resistance troops led by General Tadeusz Komorowski gained control of the city against a weak German garrison. However, heavy German air raids lasting sixty-three days, followed by a strong German counter-attack, finally overcame the uprising. In retaliation,
Hitler ordered the total destruction of what was left of the city. Meanwhile, the Red Army, which had already advanced as far as the city's Praga suburb, refused to come to the aid of the Poles, and halted its advance. It was happy to see the destruction of the Polish resistance movement, which had formed the nucleus of the support for the Polish government-in-exile. This greatly facilitated the imposition of a Communist puppet government after liberation, on 1 January 1945.
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