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That we perished in the cause,
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Less than a lifetime ago, the whole city centre was razed to the ground by Hitler’s troops after the heroic, doomed Warsaw rising of 1944.
Timothy Garton Ash from www.theguardian.com
August 1st commemorates the start of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. Years after the 63-day struggle, this day marks a historical national event which has been the source of mixed feelings: heroic national pride and tragic remembrance. Warsaw, subject to five years of fascist hegemony, rose up in popular rebellion in what would go on to be recorded as the largest ever uprising in the German occupied territories. With German morale in ribbons, a retreat from Warsaw in full swing, and the Red Army already on the east bank of the Wisła, no time seemed better than the present. Following close contact with the Polish government-in-exile, and assurances of Allied aid, the Home Army (Poland’s wartime military movement a.k.a the Armii Krajowy or AK) launched a military strike with the aim of liberating Warsaw and installing an independent government.
