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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 83. Chapters: Operation Tempest, Warsaw Uprising, Military history of the Warsaw Uprising, Majdanek concentration camp, Lack of outside support during the Warsaw Uprising, List of military units in the Warsaw Uprising, Ochota massacre, Planned destruction of Warsaw, Battle of Murowana Oszmianka, Szare Szeregi, Zaluski Library, Battle of Radzymin, Cultural representations of the Warsaw Uprising, Chrobry II Battalion, Eugeniusz Lokajski, Batalion Zoska, Wola massacre, Prelude to the Warsaw Uprising, Operation Kutschera, Koniuchy massacre, Sub-district III of Wola, Sub-district VI of Praga, Pacification operations in German-occupied Poland, Jezdimir Dangic, Sub-district VII of Warsaw suburbs, Operacja Glówki, Sub-district IV of Ochota, Polish Committee of National Liberation, PKWN Manifesto, Lwów Uprising, 104th Company of Syndicalists, Sub-district II of Zoliborz, Aftermath of the Warsaw Uprising, Jerzy Kirchmayer, Batalion Parasol, Kanal, Capitulation after the Warsaw Uprising, Pawiak, Gesiówka, Blyskawica radiostation, Warsaw Uprising Museum, Operation Most III, Kubus, District of Warsaw, Battle of Studzianki, List of people in the Warsaw Uprising, Zniwiarz Group, PAST, Warsaw Cross of the Uprising, Zaglowiec Group, Battle of Pecice, Warsaw Insurgents Cemetery, Grey Ranks, Zmija Group, Zyrafa Group, Barbara Drapczynska, Bombing of Warsaw in World War II, Rising '44. The Battle for Warsaw, Zbik Group, Roger Barlet, Biuletyn Informacyjny, Under the Clock, Operation Belt, Cross of the Warsaw Uprising, Kielce cemetery massacre, Sub-district I of Sródmiescie, Sub-district V of Mokotów. Excerpt: The Warsaw Uprising (Polish: ) was a major World War II operation by the Polish resistance Home Army (Polish: ), to liberate Warsaw from Nazi Germany, ahead of the Red Army's advance. The rebellion coincided with the retreat of German forces and the Red Army's approaching the eastern suburbs of the city. Controversially, the Soviet advance stopped short, while Polish resistance against the German forces continued for 63 days with little outside support. The uprising began on 1 August 1944, as part of a nationwide rebellion, Operation Tempest, when the Soviet Army approached Warsaw. The main Polish objectives were to drive the German occupiers from the city and help with the larger fight against Germany and the Axis powers. Secondary political objectives were to liberate Warsaw before the Soviets, so as to underscore Polish sovereignty by empowering the Polish Underground State before the Soviet-backed Polish Committee of National Liberation could assume control. Also, short-term causes included the threat of a German round-up of able-bodied Poles, and Moscow radio calling for the Uprising to begin. Initially, the Poles seized substantial areas of the city, but the Soviets did not advance beyond the city's borders until mid-September. Inside the city, bitter fighting between the Germans and Poles continued. By 16 September, Polish forces under Soviet high command reached a point a few hundred meters from the Polish positions, across the Vistula River, but they made no further headway during the Uprising, leading to allegations that the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin could not advance because the Red Army had been exhausted from the previous campaign. Winston Churchill pleaded with Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt to help Britain's Polish allies, to no avail. Then, without Soviet air clearance, Churchill sent over 200 low-level su...

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