Warsaw Uprising

The Warsaw Uprising was a rebellion launched by the Polish Home Army against the German occupation of Warsaw as Soviet forces approached the Vistula. Its leaders hoped to liberate the capital and establish Polish authority before the Red Army arrived, as part of the wider plan known as Operation Tempest. The Soviet advance halted on the east bank of the river, and the insurgents received little outside help, apart from airdrops by the Western Allies. German forces, using heavy artillery and brutal reprisals, crushed the uprising after about two months. Well over a hundred thousand civilians were killed, the remaining population was expelled, and much of the city was deliberately destroyed.

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