Warsaw Uprising, 1944 | A Study of Urban Combat

[@brianmccarthy5557]

A dozen years ago I was working for a major home improvement contractor here in Southern California. I went to meet a potential client in the suburban city of La Mirada. He was a very old widower with a Polish accent. As we talked I saw certain pictures and memorabilia in his living room, as one often does. I asked some questions and it turned out he had been a major in the Home Army and had survived the Warsaw Uprising. Before rhe War he had been a young officer in the Polish Army. He had met his late wife during the uprising when she worked as a courier for him. He was surprised that an American knew anything about the episode. I doubt anybody had ever talked about it with him for years. I was working so I couldn't ask him much about his story but I urged him to contact the local university and record a statement. I doubt he did it unfortunately. It was a honor to meet a true hero out of history, if only for a short period of time.

[@halthammerzeit]

Last of the last. Lucky you. Very few live now.

[@skullmaster6888]

@@halthammerzeitonly 500 something veterans of combat in the Uprising are left alive.

[@joelmonkley6177]

​@@skullmaster6888I doubt 500 are left in 2023 it's was 79 years ago were did you see that

[@ce641]

He must of been 15 or no more than 20 at the time then.

[@lm157]

Do you remember his surname?

[@gezbo66]

Just as the sirens stopped here in Warsaw to remember the uprising your video came through on my KZbin feed. Good timing

[@williamgill5286]

war saw saw war

[@DanielTheGamer100]

I’m polish I’m so proud of my people we endured so much and we are still so strong

[@bighulkingwar_machine1123]

I am American and I second your statement you guys are the strongest allies we have in europe. You guys take your democracy pretty damn serious and I would fight shoulder-to-shoulder with you any day and you should be proud of your heritage your blood is comprised of a long line of Warriors my friend ☆

[@DanielTheGamer100]

@@bighulkingwar_machine1123 we gonna fuck up russia

[@DanielTheGamer100]

@@bighulkingwar_machine1123 and your kind works mean a lot brother people really have no idea what we endured I been to auswitz and Man U could feel the dread everywhere insane how people act twords each other

[@bighulkingwar_machine1123]

@@DanielTheGamer100 Stay strong my friend The Americans know more about you guys history than you might think and we’ve got your back with article 5 all day long

[@danutap3653]

Trochę niezręcznie użyte slowo"moi ludzie"bardziej właściwe z nas Polaków.

[@wouter.de.ruiter]

"inability of the allies to reach Warsaw in time" Make that unwillingness. Stalin deliberately let the Germans kill off Polish resistance, so he would have an easier job of occupying Poland later on.

[@radosaworman7628]

That statement is true if you do not include Soviets as part of the allies - which would be more accurate than current distinction.

[@lightypower3412]

it's a fucking myth, the soviets had little way of helping them beyond what they already did (artillery-mostly aa-support and some late air cover + drops)

[@Surowykomentator]

It is not true. There is little to no evidence supporting this thesis in any way.

[@ADR_Warrior]

@@Surowykomentatorthe Red Army purposely waited and WATCHED for over three days across the river during the end stages of the uprising; whilest the Germans launched Stuka attacks and smashed the Warsaw old town with artillery as they closed in on it. The Red Army arrested all Polish home army soldiers sent across the river requesting their help. The Red refused US aircraft initially access to its airfields, a decision eventually reversed under pressure from the western allies, but purposefully too late. The Red army launched parachute drops purposefully to little to late after western allies pressure, on purpose without parachute so all equipment dropped was useless. The Soviet Union wanted the Germans to destroy the home army so it could then swoop in and occupy the country with its independent and resistance army gone; so they could rule Poland for themselves unposed. There is loads of evidence to support this if you research this battle further.

[@justinlasut4569]

@@Surowykomentator Katyn...the Soviets making Polish resistance leaders disappear...plenty of evidence to support that thesis.

[@lorimeyers3839]

A few years ago I met a man who whose father fought for the Polish army in 1939. When the Russians invaded from the east, he was captured as a POW and sent to Siberia. He said his dad escaped captivity and WALKED all the way home from Siberia to Poland. It took him years to get home. Wild!

[@riverchaser2090]

7 of my ancestors fought and died in the uprising. Wish I knew more of their time in the resistance. Many of my grandmothers first and second cousins. The will of the people to resist and fight, our ancestors… gives me chills and makes me try my hardest in life and cherish every day

[@calebluck4312]

I was particularly intrigued by the segments featuring Dr. Piekałkiewicz. His experiences and insights present invaluable information.

[@aslysa2277]

Much love from Puerto Rico Poland and it’s people has been through so much at the hands of tyrannical regimes and dictators

[@MrStanislav]

Much love from Poland, Puerto Rico

[@LuvThatDirtyWater]

Best wishes from Boston. I love La Parguera

[@scottadkins9040]

What would Puerto Rico know about any of that, since PR's had its snout in the public trough for DECADES.

[@aslysa2277]

@@scottadkins9040 come again hater

[@Zinovy-x6g]

За каждого выданного немцам еврея, немцы платили мешком картошки. И поляк тут же вёз эту картошку на базар и делал деньги. Ему плевать было на других поляков.

[@franktuminski8460]

AK was one of the biggest and best-organized resistance groups not only in Poland but in the entire Europe.

[@uncletimo6059]

Yugoslavia disagrees soviet partisans perhaps also

[@franktuminski8460]

@@uncletimo6059 This is your opinion. I'm aware of Yugoslavian resistance, but they never were so well-organized as Poles. There were fighting in small groups ( in remote places like mountains, never in the city). This the same Russians, they only have small groups (pockets)

[@uncletimo6059]

@@franktuminski8460 "Yugoslavian resistance, but they never were so well-organized as Poles. There were fighting in small groups " Sigh. Yugo resistance as the only resistance movement in the world during WW2 liberated their own country alone, by themselves. Nie masz zielonego pojecia co piszesz.

[@franktuminski8460]

@@uncletimo6059 For your information they were able to liberate themselves because the Germans kept much more troops in Poland (where they built most of their concentration camps) and were more concerned about the Soviets ( treat of communism).

[@uncletimo6059]

@@franktuminski8460 ooo boooshe

[@L4725]

2:25 "armia ludowa" was not an underground organisation - it was an army created from Polish people that were sent to labor camps and prisons and prisoners of war freed due to the agreements between Stalin and Sikorski. "Armia Krajowa" (Home Army) was the major underground org that started the operation tempest which was a series of uprisings happening in Polish cities occupied by German Nazis

[@foxin5619]

Not entirely true. There was also Armia Ludowa "Wolność, Równość, Niepodległość" (Peoples Army "Freedom, Egality, Independence") which was composed of polish workers and PPS supporters. They were completly independent from Stalin and USSR. They had about 43 000 fighters, and were fourth biggest underground organisation in Poland. Polish socialists also bravely fought with both nazi and bolshevik regimes, and they also payed their price in blood. Commanders of AL-WRN were later executed by communist regime after fake trails. Kazimierz Pużak, Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Józef Dzięgielewski and other polish left wing patriots gave their life for our country. You should not compare them to fucking communist pigs which was hated by them same as nazis. They are also polish heroes same as soldiers from AK, BCh and NSZ. Even tho I'm right wing, I will always defend memory of all polish heroes. Not only right wing ones.

[@electricink3908]

You are confusing Armia Ludowa with Ludowe Wojsko Polskie ie. Berling's Army.

[@misiek_xp4886]

At first it was called Gwardia Ludowa and then renamed.

[@TonyidigpoetryMena]

This is great! Really good use of graphics and footage.

[@letycja-z9d]

This is song polish poetry who died in Warsaw 4.08.44r. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6e0ZZJ6qadnatU

[@letycja-z9d]

This was Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński.

[@kubawarsz6550]

Thank you for this great film. Please, come and visit our beautiful Warsaw. It is rebuilt and after all victorious and undefeated. We have a lot of beautiful places to see, a lot of memory places to visit. There is new and interesting museum of Warsaw Uprising and many other places seen in this material you will be able to touch by your own hand. You are always welcome ❤

[@desmondp2899]

We also have new flag. or maybe it's just another occupation.

[@skullmaster6888]

@@desmondp2899wut?

[@randymasten9183]

I love visiting Warsaw and Poland. A beautiful country with an incredible history.

[@ku8adop]

@@skullmaster6888 he is a russian troll dont bother

[@kepple83]

Do they a museum for the ghetto uprising and the 1944 uprising

[@SaltyChip]

it's very rare, but youtube algorithm really screwed the pooch here. I should of known bout this channel fro years now and just found it today and I'm on my 4th vid. Great channel. Thank you for the hard work to preserve history for the masses!

[@davidm3118]

Other viewers below have commented on hos the Red Army stopped short of Warsaw and denied assistance to the AK (there were already NKVD and SMERSH units arresting Home Army members in areas occupied by the Soviets). When the Western Allies offered to fly supply missions to drop arms to the AK in Warsaw, Stalin not only denied them access to Soviet airfields to re-fuel, but threated to shoot down any Western allied aircraft attempting to supply the resistance.....as a final insult, after the war, the UK refused to allow Free Polish units to take part in the Victory parade for fear of upsetting Stalin!

[@juhopuhakka2351]

Yes,things like that make this whole thing grotesk.

[@joeyj6808]

Well, let's not forget how Britain and France left Poland to swing in the wind in 1939. They were supposed to be allies, and were *supposed to help them fight the Nazis* !

[@ku8adop]

france and uk betrayed poland during ww2, uk even made divison 303 pay for renting british planes for them!!! THATS A BIG SHAME!!! 303 Literally saved UK and they still made them pay for renting those machines!!

[@juhopuhakka2351]

And still they celebrate these polish heroes but forget to mention that they left them for stalin to do what ever.Mirror world at it finest.@@ku8adop

[@skillfulsteak847]

Please bare in mind that there was no plan for some aerial supply missions. The western allies and the Soviets had no idea about the uprising, and both scolded the poles for not telling them anything. Either way, it would be stupid for the western allies to fly all across Germany to drop a few tonnes of goods. Taking massive casualties in the process.

[@dallascheatham]

This is a great video highlighting the challenges and planning considerations for urban operations! Used to prep for a lesson with ILE students. Thank you.

[@robertnorrie8577]

Learned a lot of information from this video. Hope Army University Press can produce more!

[@SlawomirBudziak]

57:50 Be so kind and never ever use the word "liberate" in the context of the Soviet operations in Poland. They started off as Hitler's allies and ended up as part of the allied forces against Germany, however from a Polish point of view the Bolshevik Russia from an enemy and a mortal threat before and after the war. What marked the end of the war for the West was only the beginning of a long and bloody occupation of Poland.

[@timrmccarthy]

What is the word to use for stopping Hitler from killing, starving and exiling all Slavic people from Poland to the Ural mountains and expanding Germany east? That's what he was going to do. The Soviets were not Hitler's allies Nazi Germany and Communist Russia were going to war no matter what. Lebensraum conquering Russia was Hitler's main objective well know from his book Mein Kampf. It was Hitler's initiative to divide Poland and a cynical deal for dictators Hitler to buy time and Stalin to buy time and space before their war. And remember how the western allies divided Eastern Europe in 1919 for WW1 to continue there in WW2. That the UK/France declared war on Hitler when he invaded Poland but did not declare war on dictator Stalin when he invaded Poland and then did not help Poland for 5 weeks. So in the end it's not the Soviet Union that needs to be remembered or thanked but at least the people of Russia, Ukraine and other republics who defeated Hitler and "liberated" Poland otherwise Poland or the Polish people would not exist today.

[@theyeticlutch3486]

Thank you for pointing that out

[@franktuminski8460]

Thank you for your great reply.

[@cornecta]

​@timrmccarthy "to liberate: set (someone) free from imprisonment, slavery, or oppression". What soviets did definitely does not meet these criteria. I could agree on phrase "liberated from the Germans", as it were not the Germans who were doing the oppression anymore.

[@dewetmaartens359]

It is a fact that the Soviets purposefully slow walked because they wanted the Germans to destroy the resistance fighters so that they would not have potential problems with them later after taking over the city, a political decision. I find it strange that this documentary does not go further than to say, "light German opposition on the east bank". In fact the Red army had overwhelming forces that could easily have moved in against very weak German lines. This is not controversial and widely known.

[@roycharlesparker]

Hmmm, I am unable to find the quote you are citing. Is it possible that you have misquoted the film?

[@roycharlesparker]

Also, you might want to consult the following sources. The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles under German Occupation, 1939-1944 by Richard C Lukas, pg. 213-217; The Warsaw Uprising, 1 August-2 October 1944 by George Bruce, pg 284-290; German Ninth Army War Diary, app 460-461; Rising 44: The Battle for Warsaw by Norm Davies pg. 358-372.

[@randymasten9183]

All are excellent references.

[@Dilley_G45]

Only a fool says the red army was liberating Poland.

[@Krzysztof.l.Polak.84]

This is large part not true. They received bloody nose in tank-battle at the eastern ourskirts of Praga and had no strenght to really attack across the river.

[@Swellington_]

saying the soviets "liberated" Warsaw is a bit of a stretch isnt it?

[@ugbuga]

No it isnt.

[@Swellington_]

@@ugbuga yes it is

[@ugbuga]

@@Swellington_ Hitler planned to exterminate 90% of the Polish population and use those that were left for enslavement if poles stoped trying to be victims for a second they would understand that between this and not living of EU funds are not the same things.

[@IceAxe1940]

​@@ugbugaPoles are professional victims.

[@EyeOfTheRaven77]

No. The Soviets entered the city on 17 January 1945, when it was abandoned by the German's and only ruins remained. Three months after the capitulation of the uprising.

[@WalterWhiteFootballSharing]

This was such a horrible battle, the SS wiping out warsaw when the war was already so pointless; their doom sealed. The Germans were dying just for the leaders to avoid unconditional surrender which meant: War Crimes trials. Did they even know this? So Warsaw died for that. Soviets sat watching as Stalin didn't want independent poland, Germans were doing the dirty work of assuring a Soviet imposed govt.

[@desmondp2899]

Not only Germans they had ukrainian and russian helpers.

[@nuts4ships]

Very well done. I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I have liked and subscribed.

[@jaribuuri2711]

OK , THANK YOU VERY MUCH FROM FINLAND !!! LONG LIVE POLAND , DZIEKUJE POLSKA !!!

[@simonmilligan9426]

Thank you! I really appreciated the combination of military analysis with the detailed account of the conflict.

[@franktuminski8460]

Thank you for the tribute paid to these brave people

[@nigellawson8610]

The SS were unbelievably brutal in suppressing the Polish Home Army. It is worth noting that the Red Army sat on its hands while the Poles were slaughtered by the SS. What is especially disgusting, is that Stalin encouraged the Poles in Warsaw to rise up, then once the uprising began, did nothing. What is tragic about this whole sordid episode, is that the Red Army could have ejected the Germans from Warsaw without breaking a sweat Stalin was content to let the SS do his dirty work for him. After all, Stalin's goal was to set up a Polish Communist puppet state. The last thing he wanted was the anti-Communist London Poles regaining control of their country. It would have hindered his plans to extend the Soviet empire into Central Europe. When one considers the mass murder of 15,000 Polish Army officers at Katyn in 1940 and the betrayal of the Home Army by the Russians in 1944, it is easy to understand why the Poles hate and fear the Russian. These facts, as well as the fact that Poland was forced to live under a vile Communist dictatorship for nearly half a century, explain why the Poles chose to join NATO and align itself with the West. They instinctively know that the Russians, despite Putin protesting to the contrary, would love the opportunity to reincorporate Poland into the Russian empire.

[@patryknazwisko3124]

and what business did Stalin have in helping the anti-Soviet Polish underground army?

[@olduralsoldier5367]

​@@patryknazwisko3124отличный вопрос. У красной армии 600000 тысяч человек погибло в Польше, а вместо спасибо проклятия. А подполье в Варшаве плотно работало с британской разведкой, может в ту сторону стоит задать вопрос, а зачем всё это было?

[@2binzkdm]

@@olduralsoldier5367 Tylko pamiętaj, że Armia Czerwona walczyła z Wehramachtem m. in. o kontrolę nad tą częścią Europy, a nie o wyzwolenie Polski, Czech cz krajów nadbałtyckich. A przekleństwa za to, co robili Wasi żołnierze są jak najbardziej uzasadnione, niestety.

[@olduralsoldier5367]

@@2binzkdm То есть по вашей логике красная армия должна была дойти до границ СССР и сказать нацистам и их прихвостням: "Ну все ребята повоевали и хватит, мы у себя живем, а вы у себя продолжайте там у себя жечь в печах евреев, можете оставить у себя советских пленных и советских граждан угнанных в рабство." Вы в своем уме? И ответе мне на пару вопросов... в Польше было 457 концлагерей, кто их охранял? И кто убил с 1944 по 1945 более 300 евреев в Келецком и Люблинском воеводствах (подсказка, это не немцы и не красная армия, но точно какие-то нацисты)?

[@Pazuzu4219]

"the red army could have ejected The Germans without a sweat". Are you crazy. It took russia more than 8 million soldiers, lend lease and alot of other help just to "eject" The Germans from russia.

[@randymasten9183]

Niech żyje Polska!

[@mcpartridgeboy]

NO OFFECE MAN, IM DYSLEXIC, BUT YOUR SPELLING IS APAULING, LIKE WTF EVEN IS THAT ?

[@anovi72]

Long Live Poland!@@mcpartridgeboy

[@letycja-z9d]

Cześć i Chwała Bohaterom.

[@psz5515]

@@mcpartridgeboy huh?

[@GerinoMorn]

I grew up seeing the bullet holes in the old brick walls, next to plaques immortalizing the sacrifice of the Warsaw citizens.

[@franktuminski8460]

So am I. I was born in Warsaw ( 1948)

[@wehosrmthink7510]

Excellent work!

[@franzhose2388]

A very good work! The name of the SS-Comander is Heinz Rheinefarth, this creature became the major of Westerland, on the island Sylt, from 1951-63.

[@piotruulla]

6:48 Are you kidding?! This isn't a map of pre-war Poland

[@randymasten9183]

Good catch

[@randymasten9183]

Dr. Piekałkiewicz is an amazing person!

[@letycja-z9d]

Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński died in Warsaw Uprising 4.08.1944. His song kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6e0ZZJ6qadnatU

[@Tinblitz]

If anybody needs a little cheering up after this video, Dirlewanger (leader of the incompetent SS battalion filled with sociopaths) was captured in 1945. In the infinite wisdom of the Allies his prison guards were Polish. The official story is that he died of a heart attack. The unofficial story is that he met his fate at the end of many days under Polish boots and rifle-butts. I know which version prefer.

[@kamilosowski3889]

Don't get the wrong idea... There was no coincidence that the guards were Polish. Justice has been served this way.

[@Tinblitz]

@@kamilosowski3889 Oh yeah, without a doubt

[@juliuslukosevicius3406]

It's a big question if he really died there that day and that year. My one relative served in Belarussia with him.

[@joeyj6808]

The way Poland was treated by its so-called Allies is shameful, and goes a long way to explain the country's distrust and xenophobia to this day. My hope is that someday the Poles will be secure and happy, with a far less reactionary government. My people are from Poland, and I have huge respect for the independent spirit of the people, and the fierce bravery of the Polish warrior.

[@Tyrone1111]

To be fair the western allies tried to assist but because the Soviets didn’t allow western aircraft to land at soviet airfields so they couldn’t properly provide support

[@rhrynq]

In what way are the Polish xenophobic?

[@joeyj6808]

Um...how do you all feel about the climate refugees seeking jobs in Poland? How do your neighbors feel?@@rhrynq

[@LuvThatDirtyWater]

The way Poland was treated by its Allies was unfortunate but France was defeated and England was fighting for its life with no choice. It's also unfortunate that France didn't respond when Hitler took the Rhineland and it's shameful how quickly they folded but the real shame came with the betrayal when Russia signed the Ribbentrop Pact. I have no idea why you're saying Poland is xenophobic or doesn't trust "to this day". Today Poland is allied with NATO and with so much hate for Russia it is a bulldog that Ivan better let lie

[@joeyj6808]

@@LuvThatDirtyWater No. 1939 both Britain and France were untouched, and at full capability. They have no excuse but cowardice and betrayal. In no way would I defend the criminal thug Stalin and his machinations. We all know Poland is itching for an excuse to repeat 1920. Just remember, the Soviets were totally exhausted by the time they approached Warsaw. Peace is better for everybody.

[@artb3869]

Well done! Hopefully US soldiers stationed in Poland appreciate the heart there after being in Middle East and elsewhere…

[@patryknazwisko3124]

who counts on Anglo-Saxon gratitude is a fool.

[@harukrentz435]

Yes after turning cities in middle east like warsaw in summer 1944.

[@dusk6159]

​@@harukrentz435Of course you would say that, considering that you prefer those citizens and those cities to be ran by the talibans or the arab theocracies

[@Duhya]

@@dusk6159 Whataboutism. Ignore this bad, look at that bad. Two things can be bad.

[@dusk6159]

@@Duhya Fighting the terrorists holding out in their territory isn't a "bad" thing, thinking that it is is just idiotical in every possible level even if the defenders weren't the islamic jihadists. Not even the genocidal russians could be slammed for reaching the damage needed, barbary of theirs added aside, to battle the enemy in the middle eastern territory that they operated in. Unless you wanted those cities controlled by the jihadists to just stay that way undisturbed (which also means more external attacks and acts by those same terrorists located in their entrenched Middle East and Afghanistan), with Europe and the US just receiving damage and death.

[@slugshell2901]

Is this is an underrated topic

[@johnzeszut3170]

Poland never had a chance - with enemies like Hitler and Stalin and "friends" like FDR and Churchill. And yet today there is a Poland which is free and proud. And this study illustrates why.

[@amogususus12]

😂😂😂

[@madtechnocrat9234]

You are very unfair to Churchill. he became PM when france was already falling in 1940. by the time of Yalta Conference UK he was already sidelined in the talks. After war he wanted to declare war against soviet union (operation unthinkable), but support for this course was pretty much non-existent. His actions led to people escaping trough Iran from soviet union, Iranian "Hospitality" though was pretty much enforced by British soldiers. And event was possible because UK demanded that from russia when they "joined" the allies. US on the other hands was not our ally, in 1939 US was neutral, they only got involved in 1941 long after Poland was occupied. They entered the war long after we were gone from the map, when Barbarossa was already in full swing.

[@thepeskytraveller3870]

The Uprising was and is, IMHO, a great act of Polish national pride! The Poles love their country (and some ignorant ones would deem to call them nazis for this act) and many western peoples need to learn this from them. This was and is an act of betrayal by the soviets.

[@Eleolius]

It was the nature of the Communists to betray the people they claimed to serve and liberate... at the beginning of the war with their ideological sibling and more moderate political ally, Fascists, and then when sectarian violence saw them at odds with their sibling in a socialist civil war, they betrayed their other nominal allies in Warsaw a second time. The third betrayal was that of all of Eastern Europe when they categorically failed to allow free and democratic elections for independence and self determination, thus the iron curtain fell. This is the nature of the Communists and Fascists, and socialists the world over and it is the same nature: Bloodthirsty betrayal, and twisted cruelty. Ideologies without honor or decency, because they reject the fundamentals of human rights and human dignity: The individual's right to freedom.

[@gezbo66]

A great act of patriotism or a great act of stupidity. When you ask a lot of Poles now they see it as a suicidal act that brought them nothing but the destruction on their beautiful city and death. It was a harrowing and evil time. In fact, when you read books on the subject you can see how the decision to start the uprising was a bit of a mistake with regards to timing but it was too late to halt it once the orders were given out. In the end as one officer in the AK high command realized, “it was our fete. There was nothing we could do to stop it.”. I live here in this city and am fascinated by the history of that time. Brutal as hell i tell you.

[@thepeskytraveller3870]

@@gezbo66 We have the advantage of hindsight today so we can call the act stupid. However, for a people who had been under the boot of the nazi oppressors for 5 years at the time, and the alleged word of russian (allied?) command that they would be helped no doubt encouraged them. Compare this brave act, vs the inhumanity experienced by the Filipinos in Manila during the liberation of that once Pearl of the Orient where over 100K people were raped and massacred because they didn't rise up against the Japanese. All those lives lost for nothing - and the city was the second most devastated city next to Warsaw. Perhaps I would rather die fighting rather than silently die like the millions of the victims of the axis powers.

[@lightypower3412]

@@gezbo66 tbh i see the uprising as a declaration against evil, and no matter the chances or the circumstances, such a message would have been justified..

[@EyeOfTheRaven77]

One thing is for sure. I'm from Poland and i know that the awareness and respect for the effort and sacrifice of the fighting insurgents and city residents had a decisive influence on the sense of duty to overthrow communism in Poland. They were a solid foundation of our identity and gave a sense of duty to fight for us and for the next generations.

[@jwf1964]

The most heroic people the west has ever produced. The rest of us talk the talk. The poles walked the walk. Heartbreaking and inspiring in equal measure.

[@RamblesBrambles]

Really underrated uprising

[@stevo3883]

Bizarre to not go into more depth regarding the complete Soviet inaction at the Vistula, despite the red army having a overwhelming advantage in men & munitions (and a German force that was already engaged in a fight and would not be able to mount a strong response to any Soviet push) You didnt have to go into great depth and explain all of their possible motivations, a simple 1-2 minute segment explaining the katyn massacre, and particularly WHO the soviets murdered, would be enough. Present a viewer with both of these details, and let them decide. - In 1941 the soviets had secretly murdered thousands of Polish army officers and intelligentsia for the purpose of eliminating all those who might resist their puppet govt in the future. In 1944 The millions strong red army ceased their successful offensive & sat idly by as the majority of the polish resistance was destroyed. - You can add details or caveats to my description, but to not even present this issue is absurd.

[@andreikersha4060]

10's of thousands ... in Katyn alone, 20'000+ Polish POWs were murdered by Soviet NKVD. Cleansing of leadership and intellectuals was bonus. Stalin wanted to bleed out Poland, similar to most other countries in the future "communist block" ... as much is evident in the movement of the Soviet army that didn't go straight to Berlin but swung south first, capturing territories and establishing control.

[@Kanovskiy]

The Soviets didn't "sat idly", the situation was more complex than that. Yes, Stalin explicitly informed his commanders that he wanted the Germans to crush the uprising before moving to the Praga suburbs and Warsaw itself, but the Red Army also had the plan of capturing the bridges up North of the city at Zergze and Serock over the Narew river so they could surround the whole German forces involved in the area, problem is that the Germans offered much more resistance than anticipated and actually beat the Soviet thrust towards the bridges, decimating the 3rd Tank Corps in the process (part of the 2nd Tank Army, the main Soviet armored component in the region). The Soviets re-organized their infantry units, re-supplied them and finally managed to attack the suburbs. Yes, they could have frontally attacked the Praga district but Polish liberation was not their priority but the much greater plan of trapping several German Korps on both sides of the Vistula. They were a*holes for not letting american and british planes land on their captured air ports though, but it was part of their now post-war politics, they were in grabbing land mode. So, they were not just sitting and drinking Vodka, more like they had other priorities, which it did cause some rift between the allies btw.

[@williamgill5286]

The focus of the video was specifically the local uprising so i can see why they didnt go into any depth about the soviets. However, i agree that they could have at least briefly touched upon the soviet inaction or whatever else just to paint a little more of the bigger picture around the uprising itself

[@skullmaster6888]

Whats also important to note is that the Soviets were directly encouraging the start of the uprising with leaflets n shit, saying they would help, telling to rise etc. Then did nothing and didn't even let allied planes land on friendly terrain east of Warsaw

[@peternolan4107]

@@Kanovskiy No. The Soviets just sat there because they wanted the Poles to fail.

[@stonewalljackson4660]

This is great and very informative thank you.

[@MrRellic]

The SS tactics for retaking the city are strikingly similar to the Wagner Group in Bakhmut.

[@martig1000]

Exactly. Google Dirlewanger Band of ss criminals taken from prison.

[@jeffyoung60]

The Soviets would later deny they had suckered the Polish resistance into prematurely rising up against the Germans. The Soviets claimed they were still regrouping their exhausted forces after the successful Operation Bagration. But then why were the Poles instructed to rise up when they did? The Polish Resistance would have never risen up if they were not going to receive direct Soviet Red Army aid. In any event, the Polish Resistance was totally crushed and thus eliminated a potential post-war threat to Soviet control. When the Soviets resumed their advance a few months later, the Red Army easily swept the Germans from Warsaw. It was hardly a fight according to history. The Germans could only put up feeble resistance against the juggernaut Red Army and almost immediately went into retreat out of Warsaw. The Russians were what 21st century jargon would describe as, frienenemies to the Polish. Anything the Soviets would do for the Poles was for the direct benefit of the Soviet High Command (Stavka). All the while the Soviets would be undermining the Poles as much as possible. The Poles had not even known about the Katyn Forest massacre, which might have made a big difference in Polish-Soviet relations but it is academic. The Soviet Red Army had overrun all of Poland and occupied it. There was nothing the Western Allies could do and no one wanted to start a Third World War right after the Second. The Polish People would have to live under a repressive communist regime forced upon them until 1989. Freedom was long in coming. As soon as independent Poland could effect it, the nation quickly joined NATO, its only true guarantor of national security and independence today.

[@patryknazwisko3124]

so-called The "communist regime" in Poland took care of our Polish national interests and problems until 1989 were only paid agents of the west. The current government is much more oppressive and anti-Polish and makes sure that Anglo-Saxons and Germans can rob and colonize us Poles. Currently, we are enslaved by the party duopoly in the service of the Americans and specially pushed into the war with Russia. In Poland there are political prisoners imprisoned without a sentence and human rights are violated here very often.

[@dusk6159]

Spot on

[@desmondp2899]

West didn't help either.

[@EyeOfTheRaven77]

In 1939, we were attacked by Germany - Germany, a country that had legal authorities, a flag, a language, an anthem... It is not the Nazis, some group of Germans, but the country and its army. And from the east, the Russians as a result of the Molotov-Ribentrop Pact. (Slovaks also entered but their actions was limited in scale) In October 1939, before the german victory parade, civilians were taken as a safeguard against possible "problems" on the part of the residents. Next, we had in Warsaw the so-called "AB action" - Hitler gave the order to kill anyone who had higher or secondary education. In Palmiry, Otwock, Zielonka, Marki, Wawer, Nadarzyn and many other places doctors, teachers, priests, engineers were murdered... on the orders of the highest German authorities. Hence the common name "Warsaw Ring of Death". It was tens of thousands of civilians. Almost from the beginning, residents were caught on the streets and if they were lucky, they were sent to the Pawiak prison, leaving after a few months, but a lot of them were simply executed. In 1943, Hans Frank issued a decree to combat "attacks on the work of rebuilding the General Government", and since then the Germans have been shooting people in the streets almost for sport, without any clear for no apparent reason. All the time there were so-called round-ups - German troops blocked the streets in a way that prevented civilians from passing, loaded them into trucks and shot in the forests or even on the street. It was a time of public executions of ordinary, innocent residents. At Długa7 Street there is an "Archive of New Files". During the Warsaw Uprising there was a hospital there. But under the windows to the left of the entrance you will see a crushed wall. This is a souvenir of one of the public executions in 1943, and where the crumbles are shallower, someone stood. He lost his life. There are a lot of such places in Warsaw. On the balcony of the tenement house at Leszno Street, 40 people were publicly hanged. They were residents brought from the Pawiak prison. We never cooperated with the occupier, in cases of collaboration there were verdicts of underground courts and the Home Army punished such cases. Despite the German restrictions prohibiting hiding Jews, the inhabitants did so. As a punishment, the Germans shot all tenants of such a tenement house. Despite the cruelty, the Home Army carried out sabotage and assassination of the greatest German criminals. This was the case with the executioner of Warsaw - Franz Kutshera, E. Braun, F. Pabst, there were many of them, and in the years 1943-44 there were over 200 sabotage actions. On 1 August 1944, the uprising began. The enemy is Germany. The Russians are treated as allies of our friends. Among them are the Polish troops of General Berling, but on their caps the Polish emblem - the eagle does not have a crown. Soldiers of the Home Army who managed to reach the other side of the Vistula were hit, arrested and tortured.They were often sent to death row as a threat to the plan of subordination to Polish Stalin. In Poland, communism - the NKVD, together with the Security Office and institutions of the communist, Polish heroes have been murdered for many decades after the war. To this day, we are looking for hidden graves of their victims. After the defeat of the uprising, Warsaw was plundered and then 80% destroyed by the Germans as an example for other countries. And now some numbers: Before the war, the population was 1500000 people. In 1944, before the uprising, it was 800,000 people. After the fall of the uprising in Warsaw there were about 700 people. Please watch two films by Jan Komasa: "City 44" and the colourful documentary "Warsaw Uprising". Sorry for my English. Best regards.

[@TheGoodRaiden]

WARSAW CITY AT WAR VOICES FROM THE UNDERGROUND WHISPERS OF FREEDOM

[@4OHz]

0:54 Be careful regarding the words “quickly defeated.” The Poles were able to hold out better and maybe even longer than the French.

[@Foxrich99]

Comparing the poles to the french says more about them than "quickly defeated" ever could

[@halthammerzeit]

Adding soviet backstab makes it even more a feat.

[@drrobwilliams]

Excellent film!

[@randymasten9183]

Interesting question from a neighbor, why did the German Army fight so hard to maintain control of Warsaw this late in the war?

[@honnebombll]

In general, one can say that at this point in the war it was no longer the Wehrmacht High Command that made operational decisions, but Hitler himself. And his advance was not a meter back, cities were declared permanent places or fortresses. Withdrawal was forbidden under penalty, no matter how sensible it was. In the case of Warsaw, of course, there were also ideological reasons, it couldn't be that the inferior Polish sub-humans just drove out the proud Wehrmacht. It would also have been a tough propaganda loss, after all it was the first capital to be conquered and pretty much the last one to be held. It would also have become clear to the last that the war was finally lost. Hence the effort to hold/recapture Warsaw.

[@mareka3740]

Until the very last day of the German occupation - the 17th January 1945 - the Germans used to destroy and rob Warsaw although the knew well they would have to withdraw soon ...

[@harukrentz435]

I once read that the germans were actually planning to pull out of Warsaw before the uprising happen, and when that happened all logic went to toilet as Hitler was baying for blood in revenge hence the city was completely oblitered and the citizens were shot indiscriminately.

[@Warszawski_Modernizm]

It was a railway junction and a intersection for routes along the front lines. Plus the Vistula and Narew rivers were supposed to be a defense line

[@stanandollie7041]

Also they were motivated by hatred of the Poles

[@williamgill5286]

Aside from a few minor details this was beyond excellent. I know this video is specifically about the uprising but it would be interesting to have a video covering all the combat events of ww2 Warsaw like the initial german/russian invasion , german vs russian fight, the uprising and ect. Anyway, More videos focused on combat operations just like this about other cities, countries or battles would be really awesome and well appreciated. Its good to have such a detailed look at the history of the combat and everything surrounding it, we need more!! I could see these types of videos generating decent views and channel traffic aswell so everyone wins

[@invisiblehandofadamsmith]

@army could You create battle of viena and winged hussars ? thanks

[@wierdlifedude5283]

NSZ was not an antisemitic organization, where did you get that info? there were polish jews serving in there lol

[@randymasten9183]

Quite a few sources claim the NSZ was antisemitic.

[@roycharlesparker]

God’s Playground: A History of Poland, Volume II: 1795 to the Present, by Norman Davies “…and by various right-wing groups such as the National Armed Forces’ (NSZ) pg. 464. Also, this information can be corroborated in both Stefan Korbonski’s Fighting Warsaw: The Story of the Polish Underground State, 1939-1945 and Bor Komorowski’s Secret Army. Both of these works were written by high ranking figures within the underground.

[@bandyroker]

Criticism of Jews is anti-Semitism

[@kamleo85]

You have to know the realities of those times. The Jews were supporters of the Soviets and the NSZ regarded the Soviets as enemies. It's not about who you are, it's about ideology. but these days, if you don't agree with jews, you're an anti-semite. Secondly, all Jews are former Polish citizens. For the most part, the Jews did not take an active part in the DEFENSE of Poland against the Germans, and when the Soviets invaded from the east, the Jews greeted them with flowers and vodka, betraying the country they lived in. That is why they were hated by Polish nationalists. You are not anti-Semitic when you despise people who collaborate with an enemy of your country. It's not who you are but how you act. And most of the Jews were traitors to Poland, although there were also Jewish patriots, but this was the margin of the Jewish community.

[@kwestionariusz1]

​@@bandyrokerYea antisemitism is when jews dont like what u say😏

[@letycja-z9d]

Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński died in Warsaw Uprising - 4.08.1944. He was 23 years old and was polish poetry. This is song , with his words kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6e0ZZJ6qadnatU.

[@pabloggall371]

@Army University Press at 6:51 map is incorrect

[@broncofan4686]

Can someone tell me the context or link the full footage of the scene in 4:06?

[@randymasten9183]

It was an assassination of two Nazi soldiers by the Polish underground. The man and woman pulled their weapons and killed the Germans as they walked by. The film clip was stopped prior seeing the Germans fall to the ground.

[@gigachad3457]

@@randymasten9183 good

[@broncofan4686]

@@randymasten9183 Is there a source for the original clip?

[@TheDuckseason]

Nicely done..

[@CPDheadstomp]

The Soviets dragged their feet so they could take over Warsaw.

[@patryknazwisko3124]

and what business did Stalin have in helping the anti-Soviet Polish underground army?

[@chineainguanzo6341]

This is a man of valor ,war is hell ,but if they didn't have the arms needed to fight the soffisticated German army.

[@CelataForCongress]

So happy that today Poland is a NATO ally. Such a brave country. Simply Amazing....

[@siamihari8717]

And so the Black Pearl of Europe. The Paris of the East. Faded into History. Such history burned to ash

[@LegendaryCollektor]

WAR SAW CITY AT WAR VOICES OF THE UNDERGROUND WHISPER OF FREEDOM NINE TEEN FOURTY FOUR HELP THAT NEVER CAME -Sabaton; Uprising

[@robmclaughjr]

Let's all remember the Russian role in this. Putin's hero stalin really showed his lack of any honor.

[@Adam-cu3ue]

It was Russian Ukrainian and Belarusian and yes we are proud of poles no longer living on ruthenian land in lvov

[@stc3145]

@@Adam-cu3ueGenocide does work.

[@BiggestCorvid]

Stalin sucked, the Nazis sucked more but all of this happened the way it did bc the two groups divided poland. Polish identity sort of annihilated concepts of Russian and Prussian superiority. Nationalism sucks. Fuck border fuck nationalism the anarchists are the only ones who were talking sense.

[@BiggestCorvid]

​@@Adam-cu3ueDirlewanger who led the German SS brigade had just been killing Belorussian partisans but yeah let that guy be your hero I don't get why you admire nazis you should probably get help.

[@theflamingone8729]

Putin described the Stalin era as " a very dark time for Russia". He was opposed to the rise in hero worship of Stalin.

[@ArmyUniversityPress]

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[@CanadianMemorials]

Very good

[@ku8adop]

its a shame that you never mentioned how Soviets just waited on the Praga site while Poles were being killed by Germans and Warsaw was being demolished.

[@roycharlesparker]

Because they didn’t just wait. Did they arrive in a “timely” manner? Certainly not. But the film actually covers this. In fact, from the fifty-two minute mark until the end, the film goes into detail on the Soviets fighting around and inside Praga. Also, the numerous attempts at an assault river crossing are also mentioned. Is it possible that you are mistaken?

[@jannowak1986]

How terrible and inaccurate you describe polish underground organizations - BCh- Peasant's battalions were allies of Home Army (later fully joined home army) - they were not communist but agrarian, party who they've represented was only democratic opposition in after war fraudulent elections. NSZ has nothing more to do with army than others, while you suggest that they were formed out former soldiers - not more than others. Biggest was Home Army, second was BCh - Peasant Battalions (later united) NSZ was small compared to them. More polish pre-war officers were in Home Army and BCh than in NSZ

[@mareksicinski449]

23:17 'eastern europe'?

[@amogususus12]

Yes

[@irockuroll60]

I don’t think the lady that speaks of civilians was given the lecture beforehand. The Germans wanted to eradicate the ppl of Warsaw (this same videos said this)…so, why would the proximity of civilians make it harder for the Germans-they didn’t care about their safety

[@roycharlesparker]

This film was made by Army University Films. Its primary audience is all US Army soldiers from E-5 to O-5. Hence the frequent quoting or synthesis of current Army doctrine. The films secondary audience would be persons such as yourself, members of the general public.

[@richardbarrow4620]

The Poles ran that part of the world for 600 years. Everybody had it in for them.

[@williammontroy9024]

The poles are some fighter’s definitely not a people you wanna fuck with . They’re like Finn’s only l.. well polish

[@borracho_bart]

"...the Soviets inability to reach Warsaw in a timely manner doomed Warsaw." That is a HUGE misstatement. Inability means "the state of being unable to do something." They were fully able to reach the AK to assist. Fact is that they did not want to because the AK was anti commie. So they rather see them slaughtered first and then move in to the city to clean up.

[@robmclaughjr]

Betrayal was a Soviet specialty.

[@davidm3118]

I just re-watched this. It would have helped if you noted that the Germans had been developing Urban Warfare doctrine since Stalingrad, including a range of specialist equipment and vehicles such as the remote controlled goliath and Borgward armoured demolition vehicles and Sturmpanzer IV "Brumbaer". A comparison with the allied response to Warsaw and the later Paris Uprising would have helped. In France, the allies kept up pressure on the Germans to prevent them reinforcing the Garrison and logistics units in Paris with Frontline forces, whereas the Soviets permitted the Luftwaffe a free hand over Warsaw, and also did nothing when the Herman Goring Panzer-Grenadier Division re-deployed to cover the Waraw suburbs, or when the massive "Karl" howitzers were brought up. Also, there was obvious distrust already by the AK given the USSR had unsuccessfully invaded Poland in 1920, and again, as Hitlers ally in 1939.

[@roycharlesparker]

You bring up some interesting points. On the subject of German urban warfare doctrine in WWII, Truppenführung, the German capstone doctrine during the war only devoted less than a page to urban warfare. Its primary themes were Initiative, decisive maneuver, and envelopment. Two-thirds of these themes, decisive maneuver, and envelopment are difficult to achieve in an urban environment, especially for a resource-constrained attacker such as the Heer in 1944. To the Germans, stellungskrieg or positional warfare was to be avoided. Instead, they preferred to use bewegungskrieg, or a war of movement which is extremely difficult in an urban environment. Even German after-action reports give only scant details on lessons learned in urban combat. For example, the German Ninth Army War diary devoted a total of a one-hundred seventy-eight-word paragraph on what lessons its soldiers had gleaned after sixty-three days of fighting against the AK.

[@miroslawbala117]

Exactly

[@vladislavfeldman6562]

You also forgot to mention that Poland prevented the Soviet Union from helping the Czeckoslovaks defend themselves against Germany. That being Poland signing a treaty with Germany and not letting the Soviet army through to the Czecks.

[@Old299dfk]

The world abandoned Poland when it needed them most. Paraphrasing from 'All Hell Let Loose' "A nurse was holding down a beautiful teenage girl, with long luscious hair and captivating blue eyes, now with tears streaming down them. Both of her legs were severed above the knees, and the doctor needed to amputate them. She did not survive the next day."

[@dismemberedlamb9104]

War is hell. That’s why I love being apart of America. I don’t think war like that would ever really come to my door step….plus our population is armed to the teeth. (at least not ever on that scale.) Human history is so wild for no reason so dumb.

[@Old299dfk]

@@dismemberedlamb9104 you will have war, but it'll be a civil one, unless the Chinese come knocking.

[@ShakespearHD]

This is a high school version of what happened. The high command betrayed their people for allowing this uprising to start. Excuse used is that the young were gun-hoe to fight. Well it is the top military commanders that make decisions not the young. Poorly (understatement) equipped and out gunned in every way possible, this uprising had no chance. Poland's fate was decided in Tehran and Yalta, the uprising would not change it even if it somehow pushed the Germans out. Instead +100,000 civilians died for NOTHING.

[@colonellKurtz]

Truly , now we know this uprising was the most tragic and finally unnessesery move .

[@angloaust1575]

They thought the russians would help as they also thought britain and france would have helped in 1939 The tragedy of poland Caught between two evils Russia and germany Ww1 was different fighting on germanys side then the austro Hungarian empire!

[@desmondp2899]

I don't think they were that naive to think russians would help not after what commies did to us for years before and what happened under their occupation and later on when they were pushing west. They tried to liberate Warsaw before it would fall to russians. It's very complicated.

[@franktuminski8460]

Poland had a treaty with France and Great Britain to aid Poland in case of Germany's invasion. Both countries failed Poland. I would never trusted those two

[@lucasdamotta]

Will this be a prelude to Gaza ground operation?

[@elrjames7799]

'Battle for Warsaw' (produced by Wanda Koscia in 2006) is revealing. Toward the very end of the production (and interestingly enough), a Polish veteran of the rising observed: “It’s very difficult to come to terms with the fact that this most important event in my life, which this certainly was, that it was pointless and possibly harmful”.

[@victorhughgo2376]

Awesome subject, brave people the Poles. Brave patriotic people.

[@peterroberts2737]

Britain declared war on Germany because of the Poles, a war they were not ready for. What more do you want

[@WorshipinIdols]

39:24 ok…that’s a photo a of the Schwere Gustav firing on Sevastopol. It has nothing to do with Warsaw. Now, despite the fact that he said an “armored Train” I think it’s clear he meant to say a “Rail-Cannon”.

[@alfrancisbuada2591]

And the Soviets were a few miles out. But they didn't help them.

[@patryknazwisko3124]

and what business did Stalin have in helping the anti-Soviet Polish underground army?

[@alfrancisbuada2591]

@patryknazwisko3124 I mean a few miles out they didn't do anything and waited until the Nazis cleared them and plowed straight through with the grace of Drunken Russian.

[@kwestionariusz1]

Przeciez Berlingowcow wysłali

[@budowniczypylonow7026]

@@kwestionariusz1 wysłali i co? bez niczego, gdzie artyleria, lotnictwo, gdzie cieżki sprzęt. kilkunastu chłopa z karabinami na łódkach nic nie zdziała. As for Alfra, the soviets were literally in the city on the eastern bank of Vistula

[@marcinwkurw3185]

2:56 im In this recording I'm almost sure it's the Red Army, not the NSZ, the second thing is that the NSZ was never anti-Semitic in principle. It was anti-communist and fought against Soviet partisans and Soviets, and that was their main goal. The fact is that many Jews collaborated with the Soviets, which is why they died at the hands of the NSZ and hence these stupid accusations of anti-Semitism. Thirdly, what is wrong with nationalism? that you mentioned it in the same breath as anti-Semitism and xenophobia? I think you made a mistake or you don't know the definition of nationalism. There is nothing wrong with nationalism.

[@franktuminski8460]

The Jews collaborated with the Soviets and betrayed the Polish Patriots (who were sentenced to death ). What sarcasm on their part and a kind of gratitude to the Poles who fought bravely against the Germans and did not collaborate with them. We should never forget this and remind the entire World what they did.

[@-jolanta-1270]

Z Niemcami byli ich sojusznicy - ukraincy, którzy zasłużyli się szczególnym okrucieństwem podczas mordowania Polaków. Dziś Polacy udzielają schronienia ludności ukraińskiej w Polsce! Polacy są naiwni, bo w ich kraju bandera jest cały czas kultywowane. Bandera jest ich bohaterem! Życzliwość Polaków uznają za coś, co im się należy.Paranoja !!! 51:05 ​@@franktuminski8460

[@peternolan4107]

"The Soviets' inability to reach Warsaw..." Uh, no. It was unwillingness. The Russians intentionally sat on their hands until it was too late. The Russians betrayed the Poles once again.

[@konradidzik2375]

12:04 it would be good to show some numbers when comes to weapons AK (Polish army) had in Warsaw on the 1st of Aug. And what was the level of traing of the soldiers. From strategic and operational perspective the Uprising was doomed when decision was made mid July. The question is what military school teaches commanders to initiate battle with 100% chance of failure? Hail and glory to regular soldiers, junior officers and civilians who made the most sacrifice in the battle that was lost before it even started.

[@roycharlesparker]

“War is also interrupted (or moderated), and thus made even more a gamble, by: the superiority of defense over offense; imperfect knowledge of the situation; and the element of chance." Carl von Clausewitz

[@laszlobihari5280]

Lengyelek hősök

[@laszlobihari5280]

Szégyellem hogy magyar vagyok az orbán kormány putyin barátsága miatt.

[@jakubcesarzdakos5442]

BCh was not a pro-soviet organisation 6:48 why a post-war map of Poland? Why?

[@konradsuderchatterjee3931]

There is very little difference between Polish and Palestinian resistances groups and the intentions and goals behind their formations.

[@solrosenberg4529]

They resisted the Wehrmacht for as long as the entire French forces did in 1940.

[@Polit_Burro]

The Polish government is to blame for this. Had they decided to allow Soviet forces free passage as part of the Franco-Czech-Russian proposal to establish a "cordon sanitaire" to oppose and limit German expanisionism in 1935, this could have been avoided, and the Germans stopped before they even got going. Instead, the Poles, backed by the British, thumbed their noses at collective security involving the USSR. Auschwitz and Treblinka were the result. And this sideshow in Warsaw.

[@WorshipinIdols]

The Dirlewenger Brigade were all convicted Wehrmacht soldiers who had been court-martialed and thrown out of the army at least! But many were sentenced to death for various crimes and were only saved by joining this “special” anti-partisan unit.

[@Hoyllandgeorge-qc5uz]

Where are they now?

[@zanethepain8915]

Wow how similar is this to the Gazan ghetto uprising of 2023.

[@roycharlesparker]

Since Gaza has a large littoral space and Warsaw does not, that would be one huge difference. How many ideologically different resistance organizations are there in Gaza? How many paramilitary organizations fight alongside the IDF? Do the Israelis have a great deal of foreign units fighting alongside them? You know, Syrian, Egyptian, Iraqi, or Jordanian units that are ideologically aligned with them? Of course they don't because all armed conflict is different and unique to the combatant nations.

[@zanethepain8915]

@@roycharlesparker it's a ghetto a in prelude to an ethnic cleansing, every detail does not have to be exactly the same, the jews had their back up against the wall besieged with no other option than to stage an uprising and attack a vastly superior army as is the case with the Muslims in Gaza who may he massacred and ethnically cleansed but they will go out on their feet unlike the cowards who bomb babies from the air, in death they will inspire a billion others and the Jews who morphed in to the nazi like force will also have their day of reckoning just as the nazis did

[@zanethepain8915]

@@AThoughtfulMalignancy the Palestinians are fighting zionist fascists who learnt from German facists

[@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0]

​@roycharlesparker Zane said similar, not exactly the same

[@JJ_LL]

Not similar at all, you murderer

[@El_Presidente_5337]

When looking at the thumbnail I read "Marsian Uprising"

[@hypercutz7883]

Chłopcy silni jak stal!

[@Player_Review]

USSR denied the Allies access to land and/or operate out of USSR holdings, so airlifts were very difficult due to the long travel and fuel concerns, this limited the missions as well how much aid could be delivered. USSR did their share of relocating various Poles out to Siberia and other places East, also of course mass executions including a site at Katyn where they executed 22,000 unarmed POW's including non-combatant civilians that Old Bolsheviks would have called 'class enemies'. USSR seems to have done the bulk of their Poland purges in 1940, relocations were part of the joint plan between Germany and USSR, which was supposed to operate along the lines of the peoples spoken language and ancestry yet both sides would root out communist or anti-communist and any respective resistance. Germany had been behind the holocaust and were agreed to intern/relocate Jewish peoples so was responsible for direct harm to affected Polish Jews, though the USSR's actions and inactions up through and including 1944 with their betrayals, dooming many Poles with millions of the Jewish people and Poland itself. I'm grateful that in today's age Poland has rebuilt its power and glory including high moral values, and evolved democratic principles while retaining the sovereignty it has always held as closely as it could giving the nation and its people a very unique and very authentic identity, especially those having lived good chunks under Polish-Communism/Warsaw Pact have valuable stories.

[@tomhorn6679]

Our President Vladimir Putins hero was Ioseph? im pretty sure it was Stolypin.

[@shandhi5391]

At the beginning of the video you said that the Home Army wanted to liberate poland before the Soviets came in order to secure their independence but later reveal that half of their plan was to await for the Red Army to help them? So which is it??

[@ToCam-fl8ry]

both - any help was needed, it's obvious at a time like this, any help is welcome, and more so since Polish fighters after 5 years of brutal German occupation didn't even have enough weapons or ammunition. But the Polish of course, also wanted to liberate themselves but some of them trusted that Russia, now on Ally's side, will still help them, even a little. but of course, the smarter ones who survived decades of fighting vs Russia, which always wanted to ruin and enslaved Poland, knew Russia cannot be trusted, and unfortunately, these smarter ones, more skeptic towards Russia, were right. I can write an essay about how complex and tragic Poland's situation was at the time, I was just beyond tragic!

[@DotepenecPL]

There is a lot of incorrect information in the first few minutes. Polish government didn't flee to London. It was interned in Romania and a new one was formed in France. NSZ had no more "veterans" than any other underground organization; BCh had no affiliations with the Soviet Union; they both were merged with AK only partially, AL - wasn't at all; today we know that a number of AK members mentioned (300 000) is highly inflated, overestimated. This all discouraged me from watching the rest.

[@roycharlesparker]

“…number of AK members mentioned (300,000) is highly inflated, overestimated.” According to Komisja Historyczna, PSZ 3:119 AK strength in January 1944 274, 027-Enlisted 7,506-Cadet Officers 10,756-Officers 87, 886-NCO’s Add these together and you get 380,175 Also, the narrator says “approximately 300,000” so unless you have an alternative source I’d say the films claim is highly accurate. Also your claim about the government-in-exile is dubious. Members of Marshal Piłsudski’s party Sanacja, or Sanitation. The first head of the government in exile was Władysław Sikorski, whom Piłsudski and many of the other members of his party despised. Too much good scholarship on this issue is publicly available to list it all, but I would start with Norman Davies, PhD and Anna M Cienciala, PhD.

[@DotepenecPL]

@@roycharlesparker A. L. Sowa, basing on the approximate numbers of the units in the "Burza" action, estimates their total number as around 75 thousand soldiers, 2/3 of them armed. Adding Warsaw and those who did not take part in "Burza", he concluded there was probably no more than 200 thousand members at their peak. The earlier numbers were based on the reports: let's take a number of the platoons and assume they are all complete (they mostly weren't). Also, some commanders who reported the numbers of actual members made them higher in order to receive more resources, weapon etc. There are stories of people mentioned as AK members in the documents, who weren't even aware they were considered AK members... Modern historians tend to be way more sceptic towards the earlier narrative. And that applies to all underground movements, not only AK. Once you add up supposed numbers of AK, BCh, NSZ, AL etc. members you may reach half a million or more - that would mean quite some percentage of the population would "belong" somewhere - talk with the folks and you will know they didn't.

[@janpierzchala2004]

Hells Angels had this world chapters jamboree near Warsaw and I am walking past the great modern interactive Museum of Uprising '44 in Warsaw and yes - 4 Hells Angels are coming, always eager to learn more about urban combat.

[@r.j.lombardi111]

Cannot people read dates?