“ There would most likely not have been a free, independent, completely sovereign Poland if it had not been for the blood shed by the Warsaw insurgents, had it not been for that heroism, that effort, that attitude ” said president Andrzej Duda during a gathering with the insurgents at the Warsaw Uprising Museum.
"Did they think that then they were besides recovering this Poland for us, for later generations and for today's generations? I guess most people haven't thought about it. But there is besides surely a second of them, and I think it's almost as large as the first 1 – raising the next generations.“ The president said.
Today, erstwhile my children, grandchildren did not gotta fight for Poland for her freedom, there is simply a reflection on how much we owe to those who won us this freedom with the tribute of their young blood. But this shed blood and their sacrifice and sacrifice in the fight for Free Poland are binding. We owe it to them. Terror, torture at Szuch and Pawiak, captures, executions. They've had adequate of the Warsawians! They wanted to live in free Warsaw and Poland. They wanted to learn, love and live!! They didn't want to be in constant fear...
Hunger, deficiency of water and medicine, and mostly weapons. Madness trapped in bombed basements. We're not gonna hear about that on the anniversary of the uprising. The voices of the people who rose up saw or participated in it very closely. They will besides be stifled by clichés about Stalin's moral triumph and his communist supporters. However, no 1 will forget the heroism of the inhabitants of the capital, about how heroic youth stood up to the German occupier and stopped the Red Army's march.
Warsaw insurgents are heroes of the Republic. How large is the value of the Insurgency act and how different the state-created is the memory of this military act we experience after years. The Warsaw Uprising was a large evidence to the attitude of patriotism, heroism and devotion to his homeland. Stabilizing memory and building attitudes forged on the barricades of Warsaw is the work and work of all Pole for full generations of Poles – about the generations of Columbuses. . Had it not been for the heroic and heroic fight of the Warsaw Insurgents there would never be a Free Poland. There on the barricades of Warsaw was the thought of the homeland of its independence, as Saint John Paul II in Warsaw mentioned in 1979.
The military aspect of the Uprising and the contribution of the AK to the work of defeating the 3rd Reich are besides frequently overlooked. Warsaw was an crucial communication hub. For 2 months Germany had blocked rail and road connections with the east front, which had a negative impact on Wehrmacht's supply of war materials. The supply had to be delivered in a circular way. Moreover, the insurgents had a crucial German force – in terms of tactical units – in the strength of the 3 divisions.
Germany besides suffered comparatively large losses in fighting for Warsaw. German losses are hard to estimation accurately. The reports of the commander of the German forces in Warsaw, SS-Obergruppenfuhrer von dem Bach-Zelewski, who reported to Himmler on October 5, 1944, about 1570 dead, including 73 officers and 7.5 1000 wounded. In 1947, being already in Allied captivity, Bach-Zelewski reported that the full losses on the German side were 10,000 killed, 7,000 missing and 9,000 wounded. Interestingly, the Military Encyclopedia published by Bellona in 2007 gives uncritically akin figures.
In summing up the losses of Germans and Collaborant soldiers, mainly from the East (ZSRR) were very large. Bach-Zelewski did not endure any punishment for suppressing the uprising in Warsaw, he constantly emphasized during the interrogations that he stopped the murders on the civilian population.
It can be argued whether the Uprising was essential or not, but in that peculiar political-military situation, erstwhile under the russian court communists formed a "government" called PKWN, the acquisition of Warsaw by the AK and the worldwide publicity of this event could force the USSR to recognise the legality and sovereignty of the legitimate authorities of the Republic of Poland.
“For 63 days they have done their best, beyond human measure. This is why the generation of the National Army is considered 1 of the best in our history” – said the manager of the Museum of Warsaw Uprising Ołdakowski. He assured the insurgents: "We will do everything to guarantee that the memory of the Warsaw Uprising not only lasts, but besides shapes subsequent generations of Poles".
The size of the Uprising was not only to die on barricades, but who they were later and what they were for Poland and Poles. For this heroism then and that large lesson of past present Poles draw examples of how to defend their homeland present at a time erstwhile fascist Russia smokes and kills innocent people in Ukraine.
Hail and Glory to the Heroic Warsaw Uprisings
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