Author Alexandra Richie gives the first in a major 3-part series of interviews on Polish history. In this episode you'll find out from the author of 'Warsaw 1944' how the Warsaw Uprising ended.
On the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, Bogusław Górakowski who cheated death more than once, saw with his own eyes the murderous cruelty of the Germans and endured the misery of expulsion from the city and the horror of the transit camps, opens up after decades of silence.
Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz and his German counterpart Heiko Maas laid wreaths on Thursday at a monument in Warsaw commemorating the 'Wola Slaughter,' a massacre of civilians committed by Nazi German forces during the Warsaw Uprising.
An artwork project by Wroclaw (southern Poland) resident Tomasz Tomaszewski has won a competition for a sculpture or installation commemorating the liberation of Breda, the Netherlands, by the 1st Armored Division lead by General Stanisław Maczek in 1944.
The final day of the Warsaw Uprising and as the leader of the Polish AK gives the order to lay down arms, Hitler’s troops beginning razing the city to the ground street by street.
The Home Army commander, General Bór-Komorowski, realises the city can no longer be defended and tells the government in exile of his intention to surrender.
After days of fighting Hitler decides to honour the commanders of German forces in Warsaw despite the crimes against humanity. Meanwhile the Żoliborz district surrenders.
With the enemy closing in Home Army commanders tell the Red Army that unless they get support from the Soviets the Germans will crush the Uprising.
Starving, desperately short of supplies and with no bandages or medicine to care for the injured and dying: Day 59 of the Warsaw Uprising sees the Germans tighten their grip on the insurgents and the city’s civilians.
The Germans have begun sending civilians to work camps. Those who refuse to leave are killed in house-to-house searches.
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