User:ManU9827/sandbox

Warsaw Uprising
	Part of Operation Tempest in 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 airdrop supplies near Holy Cross Church.
Date	1 August – 2 October 1944; (63 days)
Location	Warsaw, Poland52°13′48″N 21°00′39″E
Result	German victory Surrender of Warsaw Home Army; (see capitulation agreement); Soviet Lublin–Brest Offensive halted; Allied operation failure of Warsaw airlift; 80–90% of Warsaw destroyed; Mass murder of civilians in reprisal;
Belligerents
Polish Underground State Home Army; Polish Army in the East; (from 14 September) Supported by: United Kingdom; (4 August – 21 September) ; United States; (only on 18 September) ; South Africa ; Soviet Union; (limited aid) ;	Germany General Government;
Commanders and leaders
T. Komorowski (POW); Tadeusz Pełczyński (POW); Antoni Chruściel (POW); Karol Ziemski (POW); Edward Pfeiffer (POW); Leopold Okulicki; Jan Mazurkiewicz; Zygmunt Berling	Walter Model; Nikolaus von Vormann; Rainer Stahel; E. v.d. Bach-Zelewski; Heinz Reinefarth; Bronislav Kaminski; Oskar Dirlewanger; Petro Dyachenko; Robert von Greim; Paul Otto Geibel
Units involved
Home Army City Center – North; City Center – South; Powiśle; Warsaw – North; Żoliborz; Kampinos Forest; Warsaw – South; Kedyw Units; Polish First Army Warsaw Airlift:; Royal Air Force; (including Polish squadrons); US Army Air Force; South African Air Force; Soviet Air Force	Warsaw Garrison Kampfgruppe Rohr; Kampfgruppe Reinefarth; Sturmgruppe Reck; Sturmgruppe Schmidt; Sturmgruppe Dirlewanger; Schutzpolizei; Supported by:; Luftwaffe
Strength
20,000–49,000; 2,500 equipped with guns (initially) ; 2 captured Panther tanks ; 1 captured Hetzer tank destroyer ; 2 captured armoured personnel carrier ; Improvised armored vehicles Warsaw Airlift:; US Army Air Force; 107 B-17s, P-51 Mustangs;	13,000–25,000 (initially) ; Throughout the course of uprising: ~50,000[citation needed] ; Dozens of tanks Luftwaffe 6 Junkers Ju 87s;
Casualties and losses
Polish resistance: ; 15,200 killed and missing ; 5,000 WIA ; 15,000 POW (incl. capitulation agreement) ; Polish First Army: 5,660 casualties Warsaw Airlift: 41 aircraft destroyed	German forces: ; 2,000–17,000 killed and missing ; 9,000 WIA Multiple tanks and armored vehicles
	150,000–200,000 civilians killed; 700,000 expelled from the city

This is the user sandbox of ManU9827. A user sandbox is a subpage of the user's user page. It serves as a testing spot and page development space for the user and is not an encyclopedia article. Create or edit your own sandbox here.

Other sandboxes: Main sandbox | Template sandbox

Finished writing a draft article? Are you ready to request review of it by an experienced editor for possible inclusion in Wikipedia? Submit your draft for review!

Date1 August – 2 October 1944
(63 days)

Location

Warsaw, Poland

52°13′48″N 21°00′39″E

Result

German victory

Surrender of Warsaw Home Army
(see capitulation agreement)
Soviet Lublin–Brest Offensive halted
Allied operation failure of Warsaw airlift
80–90% of Warsaw destroyed
Mass murder of civilians in reprisal

Quick facts Warsaw Uprising, Date ...

Close

[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
Borodziej, p. 75.
[6]
[7]
[8]
Tadeusz Sawicki: Rozkaz zdławić powstanie. Niemcy i ich sojusznicy w walce z powstaniem warszawskim. Warszawa: Bellona, 2010. ISBN 978-83-11-11892-8. p. 189.
[9]
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski: Armia Podziemna. Warszawa: Bellona, 1994. ISBN 83-11-08338-X. p. 443.
[10]
Marek Getter. Straty ludzkie i materialne w Powstaniu Warszawskim. "Biuletyn IPN". 8–9 (43–44), sierpień – wrzesień 2004., s. 70.
[11]
Ilu Niemców naprawdę zginęło w Powstaniu Warszawskim? Paweł Stachnik, ciekawostkihistoryczne.pl 31.07.2017 Accessed 12 September 2019
[12]
Meng, Michael (2011). Shattered Spaces. Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland. Harvard University Press. p. 69. ISBN 978-0674053038.
[13]
Bartrop, Paul R.; Grimm, Eve E. (2019). Perpetrating the Holocaust: Leaders, Enablers, and Collaborators. ABC-CLIO. p. 12. ISBN 978-1440858963.
[14]
Wolfson, Leah (2015). Jewish Responses to Persecution: 1944–1946. Rowman&Littlefield. p. 534. ISBN 978-1442243378.

[Davies_2004-1] [1]

[Airlift_to_Warsaw._The_Rising_of_1944-2] [2]

[BW-3] [3]

[AB1-4] [4]

[5] [5]
Borodziej, p. 75.

[WUmuseumcom-6] [6]

[wufaq-7] [7]

[8] [8]
Tadeusz Sawicki: Rozkaz zdławić powstanie. Niemcy i ich sojusznicy w walce z powstaniem warszawskim. Warszawa: Bellona, 2010. ISBN 978-83-11-11892-8. p. 189.

[9] [9]
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski: Armia Podziemna. Warszawa: Bellona, 1994. ISBN 83-11-08338-X. p. 443.

[10] [10]
Marek Getter. Straty ludzkie i materialne w Powstaniu Warszawskim. "Biuletyn IPN". 8–9 (43–44), sierpień – wrzesień 2004., s. 70.

[stachnik-11] [11]
Ilu Niemców naprawdę zginęło w Powstaniu Warszawskim? Paweł Stachnik, ciekawostkihistoryczne.pl 31.07.2017 Accessed 12 September 2019

[12] [12]
Meng, Michael (2011). Shattered Spaces. Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland. Harvard University Press. p. 69. ISBN 978-0674053038.

[13] [13]
Bartrop, Paul R.; Grimm, Eve E. (2019). Perpetrating the Holocaust: Leaders, Enablers, and Collaborators. ABC-CLIO. p. 12. ISBN 978-1440858963.

[14] [14]
Wolfson, Leah (2015). Jewish Responses to Persecution: 1944–1946. Rowman&Littlefield. p. 534. ISBN 978-1442243378.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

[10]

[11]

[12]

[13]

[14]

Related Articles