- Memoir of the Warsaw Rising
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- 01.01.2007
Listen to an adaptation of Miron Bialoszewski’s Memoir of the Warsaw Rising, which broke on August 1, 1944.
The Polish Home Army resisted the Nazi-led forces until October 2.
Losses on the Polish side amounted to 18,000 soldiers killed, 25,000 wounded and over 250,000 civilians dead, mostly in mass executions conducted by advancing German troops.
Casualties on the Nazi side amounted to over 17,000 soldiers killed and 9,000 wounded.
During the urban combat—and after the end of hostilities, when German forces acting on Hitler's orders burned the city systematically, block after block—an estimated 85% of the city was destroyed as Soviet troops looked on passivly on the other side of the River Vistula.
Hear the tragic, bloody tale here.