The date was 1 Septemeber 1944. On 1 September 2004, 60 years after, I want Wiki to make it a Feature Project. Lot's of work needs to be done, so expect blog post scarce untill then. Any help appreciated here.
Perhaps you will enjoy this header section I have prepared.
- Eve of the Battle
- On the East: Soviet advance and propaganda
- On the West: Polish government-in-exile
- Here and now: Operation Tempest
- German scheme: creation of Festung Warschau
- The "W" hour
- First moves
- Second move: The Wola Massacre
- Third move: Siege of PAST building
- Failed moves: Okecie, Pola Mokotowskie, Train Station
- 63 days
- Stabilization of front lines
- The circle tightens: loss of Żoliborz, Stare Miasto
- The scenery: the sewers and the barricades
- Soviet 'help': Berling landings on Powiśle
- Western Allies help: the airdrops
- Life behind the frontlines: Few weeks of Poland reborn
- Outside Warsaw: Poland, Europe, World
- On the East: No will to help
- On the West: good wishes from far away
- Aftermath
- The end is here: the capitulation
- A city was here: 85% of the city in ruins
- The butcher's bill: the casualties (note: merge civilian and military, or divde with smaller subheaders
- Nazi's tools of trade: the concentration camps around Warsaw
- Aftermath of the battle
- "Liberation" in January 1945
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