Soviet and German artillery exchange fire, adding to the destruction. Meanwhile civilians brave the inferno and try to cross Vistula in a desperate attempt to get to safety.
German forces turn their attention to the south of the city and the exhausted, poorly-armed and outnumbered AK troops. Weeks of non-stop combat is beginning to take its toll.
EXCLUSIVE: British Holocaust researcher and founder of the Auschwitz Study Group Michael Challoner has created a harrowing series of before-and-after photographs that serve as a poignant reminder of how the perpetrators of the Holocaust spent their free time.
Day 51 of the Warsaw Uprising. As the fighting and killing continues, British vlogger Patrick Ney looks at the personal tragedies of some of the Home Army soldiers.
Known as the JP2, the reconstructed military Star truck was produced especially for the Pope during his first visit to Poland in 1979.
Polish soldiers with the Red Army are ordered back across the river leaving the Home Army to carry on the fight alone.
US bombers begin dropping supplies but less than one-in-five land in Home Army territory. Meanwhile, although Polish soldiers fighting with the Red Army have crossed the river, the thousands of much-hoped for Soviet forces remain on the other side.
The Polish 1st army of the Red Army has arrived and although better armed than the Polish Home Army have little experience of close-quarter fighting consequently the death toll is high.
Poland was now in a war it had no possibility of winning, trapped between two behemoths. Its forces were overwhelmed by the mechanized modern German army, and Poland had nothing left with which to fight the Soviets, it’s 1,400 km border only being defended by poorly armed border guards.
President Andrzej Duda on Monday laid a wreath at Warsaw's Monument to the Fallen and Murdered in the East on the 79th anniversary of the Soviet aggression on Poland.
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