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.
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