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Warsaw Uprising; Part of Operation Tempest of the Polish Resistance and the Eastern Front of World War II: Clockwise from top left: Civilians construct an anti-tank ditch in Wola district; German anti-tank gun in Theatre Square; Home Army soldier defending a barricade; Ruins of Bielańska Street; Insurgents leave the city ruins after surrendering to German forces; Allied transport planes ...
1943 - April–May: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Warsaw Uprising. 1944 Subcamp of the Oflag 73 prisoner-of-war camp for officers established by the Germans in Praga. [36] 27 July: German Festung Warschau established. August–October: Warsaw Uprising against German occupation. [37] 1 August: Execution at Powązkowska Street perpetrated by the Germans.
This is a timeline of Polish history, ... Warsaw Uprising begins October 2: Warsaw Uprising ends 1945: January 26: Przyszowice massacre: February 11: Yalta Conference ...
Although German air defence over the Warsaw area itself was almost non-existent, except for elements of JG52, the highest-scoring fighter squadron in the Luftwaffe, which claimed its 10,000th kill of the war on a Soviet plane over the Warsaw suburb of Praga, about 12% of the 296 planes taking part in the operations were lost. Most of the drops ...
1659 image of the Warsaw Siren. The history of Warsaw spans over 1400 years. In that time, the city evolved from a cluster of villages to the capital of a major European power, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth—and, under the patronage of its kings, a center of enlightenment and otherwise unknown tolerance.
The appeal issued by the uprising command posted on city streets, 1 August 1944. "W" Hour, also spelled as W-Hour (Polish: Godzina „W”'), was the codename for the date and time that began Operation Tempest in German-occupied Warsaw, and hence the Warsaw Uprising. The exact time was 5:00 PM on 1 August 1944.
The explosion of the tank-trap on Kiliński Street in Warsaw occurred on 13 August 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising, at Kiliński Street in the Old Town. The blast was caused by a captured German special vehicle, the Borgward IV, which the insurgents had seized. More than 300 insurgents and civilians, who had gathered to admire the captured ...
Operation Tempest or Operation Burza [a] (Polish: akcja „Burza”, sometimes referred to in English as "Operation Storm") was a series of uprisings conducted during World War II against occupying German forces by the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa, abbreviated AK), the dominant force in the Polish resistance.