Warsaw Uprising
Warsaw Uprising( February 1943 ) An uprising against the occupying German troops staged by 60,000–100,000 survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto (established in 1940 for 400,000 Jews). Although the Jewish survivors were poorly armed it took the heavily armed German garrison over one month to defeat and massacre them.
( August 1944 ) The Polish insurrection in Warsaw in World War II, in which Poles tried to expel the German Army before Soviet forces occupied the city. As the Red Army advanced, Soviet contacts in Warsaw encouraged the underground Home Army, supported by the exiled Polish government in London, to stage an uprising. Polish Resistance Movement troops led by General Tadeusz Komorowski gained control of the city against a weak German garrison. Heavy German air‐raids lasting 63 days preceded a strong...
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