Warsaw Uprising
July 1944
As the Red Army approached the Vistula, the Polish Home Army rose against the German occupiers of Warsaw, expecting Soviet help. Stalin halted his armies and let the Poles bleed. For sixty-three days they fought in sewers and ruins. Two hundred thousand died. Hitler ordered Warsaw leveled. The city was eighty-five percent rubble by the time the Soviets finally arrived.
In context
Also in 1944 (5 other events on record)
- D-Day: Normandy landings · Europe · War
- Bretton Woods Conference begins · North America · Politics
- Valkyrie plot fails to kill Hitler · Europe · War
- Paris liberated · Europe · War
- Battle of Leyte Gulf · Southeast Asia · War
Before and after in Europe
Before and after in War
Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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