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.
German troops attack hospitals, setting them on fire and killing all the patients and 98 AK soldiers are gunned down after emerging from the sewers. The Germans then turn their attention to the northern district of Żoliborz.
The film, which will take 30 animators a year to draw, is expected to premiere on the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day on 8 May 2020.
As the district of Mokotów threatens to fall into German hands, Polish defenders plan their escape through the sewers.
The district of Mokotów becomes the centre of the battle with German tanks and troops attacking from the west.
The Soviets begin a disinformation campaign that makes it hard for the Western allies to provide aid to the beleaguered Polish fighters.
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.
Polish soldiers with the Red Army are ordered back across the river leaving the Home Army to carry on the fight alone.
The Praga district of Warsaw becomes the new front line as 150,000 Red Army soldiers descend on the remaining 50,000 German troops. Day 44 of the Warsaw Uprising.
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