Warsaw Uprising (8 agos 1944 año – 21 oct 1944 año)

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Polish underground Home Army ordered an uprising so that the poles might take the city on their own and establish independence from the soviets
anticipating german defeat by august 1944 as the soviet army advanced steadily across Poland

tragic miscalculation

red army refused to enter the city and allowed the germans to destroy the polish insurgents

only after the home army surrendered did the red army continue its advance

warsaw was decimated

between 150,000 and 200,000 poles (mostly civilians died

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