Remembering History: Warsaw Uprising Begins (1 Aug 1944)

On 1 Aug 1944 Poles in Warsaw launched a major uprising against the Nazi occupation. The Soviet Army had advanced to the Vistula River on the eastern suburb of Warsaw prompting the revolt. Polish General Tadeusz Bor-Komorowski, commander of the Home Army (an underground resistance group of around 40,000), had ties to the government-in-exile … Continue reading Remembering History: Warsaw Uprising…