Chapter 119: The Warsaw Uprising

On August 1, 1944, Ludwig Fischer, the Governor of Warsaw, woke up early, had a hasty breakfast and went to work. It was an eventful time, and the Soviets' ironclad torrent came from the east, reaching the Vistula River; The Anglo-American Allies opened a second theater of war in France; On 20 July, there was a deliberate bombing in the wolf's den to assassinate the Führer; The Third Reich was already in turmoil. Fisher managed a large city of 1.5 million people, but with only 55 German officers to maintain the day-to-day administration, he was even more troubled by the fact that in July, two SS regiments of the Warsaw garrison were transferred to the front, and Warsaw was like a crumbling house that was being stripped of its last pillars. Thinking of this, Fisher couldn't help but feel palpitations, and he looked out the window in a daze, Warsaw, which had been occupied by Germany for nearly five years, was as calm as ever, and the citizens went out to work after breakfast. Fisher could not have imagined that in the next two months Warsaw's name would repeatedly appear in the notices of the High Command and be noticed by the world.

At 3 p.m. on August 1, commotion began on the streets of Warsaw, followed by an eerie silence as if the shops were closed, pedestrians hurried home, and the city fell into an eerie dead silence. At 4:50 p.m., the silence of Warsaw was broken by gunfire, and just 10 minutes later the sound of gunfire was already ringing throughout the city! The Warsaw Uprising broke out! At 8:15 p.m., the announcement of Lieutenant General Steyr, commander of the German garrison in Warsaw, was broadcast to the whole city in Polish and German languages: "I declare that Warsaw will be in a state of war from now on, and that civilians will not be allowed to go out into the streets, otherwise they will be killed, and all buildings where people are shooting at the Germans will be razed to the ground!" ”

The outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 had both historical and practical factors. The historical factor lies in the fact that the Poles have always maintained a strong sense of patriotism since modern times. Poland is located in the heart of Eastern Europe, surrounded by strong enemies, has been carved up three times in history, and the country has been lost for a hundred years. Fisher later commented: "Preparations for the Warsaw Uprising began in 1939 when the city was broken. "The reality factor is that the situation of the war is developing and the time is ripe for an uprising. The Battle of Belarus in June 1944 was a major blow to the German army, with Army Group Center near annihilation and German control over the Polish occupation weakened. The Soviet army advanced in great force and was already approaching Warsaw; The Anglo-American Allies landed in France, leaving the Germans vulnerable to the enemy; The July 20 assassination caused even more chaos within the German army. In view of the above situation, the Polish exile in London judged that it was a good opportunity, and the resistance force under it, the National Army, accordingly formulated a plan for an uprising codenamed "Storm".

The Polish exile** was the legal successor to the Polish regime recognized by the West after 1939, and its internal structure was very loose, consisting of the Kuomintang, the Workers' Party, the Peasants' Party, and the Socialist Party, which were further divided into moderates and hardliners according to their attitude towards the Soviet Union. The armed forces, led by exile**, had two parts: Polish servicemen who fled from Poland in 1939 and returned from the Soviet Union in 1942, who joined the Allied armies; One part was the National Army, a resistance organization that remained in the country, which was established in February 1942 and was mainly engaged in underground sabotage and guerrilla warfare, and by 1944 it had grown to 25~350,000 people, covering the occupied areas. The National Army was in exile in London, with the goal of recovering the country, politically close to the West, opposed to the Soviet Union, and in line with the position of Poland before the war. The National Army was the main force of the Warsaw Uprising, and its commander was Major General Tadeusz Komorowsky, under the pseudonym Bull

In addition to the National Army, there were also armed forces of pro-Soviet political forces that took part in the Warsaw Uprising, the most important of which was the People's Army led by the Polish Workers' Party (formerly the Polish Communist Party), formed in March 1942. Although the KPA was inferior to the National Army in strength, it absorbed some of the peasant battalions and other left-wing forces and came under the leadership of the Polish National Liberation Committee, established on 22 July 1944 as a Soviet-backed pro-Soviet regime, so that the KPA was supported by the Soviet Union and formed in July together with the Polish 1st and 2nd Armies of the Soviet Army as the Polish Army. The national army and the people's army are in serious political confrontation, and there has always been discord, and armed conflicts have even broken out. About 10,000 members of the National Army and 5,000 people of the People's Army participated in the Warsaw Uprising.

In fact, in addition to expelling the German occupation forces and liberating the capital, the purpose of the uprising of the national army was to take control of Warsaw before the Soviet Union, to welcome the exiles back to China, and then to win a place for post-war political negotiations. Combined with the background of the time, this bold but unrealistic idea was indeed the only chance for exile to return to power, otherwise once the Soviet army liberated the whole of Poland, the power would have been owned by the National Liberation Committee. However, the national army did not plan for the uprising sufficiently, and even blindly optimistic that under the situation of the Soviet troops approaching the city, once the battle began, the German troops in the city would inevitably be invincible and flee in a hurry, so they did not blow up the railway lines and stations, nor occupied bridges and communication arteries, but seized public facilities such as government offices, post offices, hospitals, banks, and power plants, so as to create the established fact of occupying Warsaw in front of the Soviet troops. However, the leadership of the National Army grossly overestimated its own strength and underestimated the will of the German defenders to resist.

At the beginning of August 1944, the area of Warsaw under the control of the insurgents was located in the main city on the west bank of the Vistula, while the city on the east bank of the river was still under the control of the German army.

Although the German garrison of Warsaw was taken by surprise by the insurgents and lost part of the city, they quickly regained their composure, quickly switched to the defensive, and held on with limited forces, even organizing a planned counterattack three days after the outbreak of the uprising. The German occupation authorities were always vigilant and prepared for the armed insurrection of the Polish resistance, and in fact until the summer of 1944 the German army was effectively controlling the situation in Warsaw, effectively and ruthlessly suppressing the Polish resistance. After withstanding the initial attacks of the insurgents, the Germans launched a frenzied counterattack, with Hitler personally directing the SS troops to suppress it, and Himmler claiming to "raze Warsaw." In the first week of August alone, the Germans gathered 12,000 troops to attack along the bridges and roads left behind by the insurgents, in addition to using heavy weapons, including "Karl" and "Assault Tiger", to systematically advance the destruction of the city of Warsaw.

The insurgents were far from each other in terms of strength, combat skills, and weaponry. Those who participated in the uprising ranged in age from 15 to 50 years old, and most did not have the necessary military training. The hastily erected barricades in the streets were neither professional nor strong, no anti-tank trenches were dug, and there was a lack of liaison and coordination between the various units of the rebel army. In addition to the uneven quality of personnel, the national army also suffered from a serious shortage of weapons, generally equipped with *** and rifles, more often only pistols and hands**, in the early days of the uprising there were almost no machine guns and anti-tank weapons, although machine guns and light artillery were obtained from airdrop support, but they were always inferior to the Germans in firepower. After the Germans began to counterattack, the rebels switched to passive defense, were divided and surrounded by the Germans, and even strictly forbade active fire in order to avoid causing an attack by the Germans!

On the 25th, the 17th Army of the Revolutionary Army stationed in Warsaw quickly dispatched and deployed on the periphery of Warsaw, and then had an encounter with the First Ukrainian Front, and the First Belorussian Front led by Zhukov also arrived, and the Soviet tanks were not worth mentioning at all in front of the Revolutionary Army, and the long-range self-propelled ** artillery opened fire on the First Ukrainian Front, and the tank division was devastated, a large number of tanks were blown up into scrap metal, and the barrels became several sections, and the Japanese Allied Army, which came to reinforce, launched an attack on Belarus with the 17th and 21st divisions of the Korean Allied Army, The heavy artillery of the Soviet army also fired, the Japanese allied army, the Korean allied army fell, and in a few minutes, the Soviet artillery was locked by the infrared of the ** artillery, and then 300 Stalin guns were completely laid down under the bombardment of the ** artillery, the gun shaft and the barrel were separated, and the Soviet soldiers blew up the shells into ruins, their arms and legs were gone, and there was blood on the ground, and the soldiers who fell to the ground cried out in pain, God, help me.

In less than a day, the Soviet army lost more than 30,000 tanks, more than 40,000 tanks, and more than 80,000 prisoners were taken by the revolutionary army.

The revolutionary army also arrested a group of Belarusian female soldiers, more than 20 female soldiers entered the house, and the outside were all revolutionary army soldiers, Japanese army soldiers, four soldiers at the door were holding guns, the rules here were to check the weapons, and under the threat of the soldiers, these people then took off their clothes and went in, these beauties were all big white legs, wearing briefs, with bras, Li almost had a nosebleed, okay, no weapons, all stood up, female soldiers wore leather shoes and long socks, showing white rabbits, Li began to interrogate, your situation task, and then asked one by one, you are war criminals, War criminals mean that you have to send the Germans to concentration camps, many people are afraid, these people say they don't want to die, in fact, no one is afraid of death in this link, you don't want to die unless, you promise me a request, what request? That is to be my person, to do things for me, forced helpless female soldiers to choose to give in and surrender, Li brought these people into the house Many beauties accompanied Li in bed for a night of passion, Li Ming still felt a little tired, this night Li Shuang was like a fairy.

The next day, the revolutionary army began to suppress the rebels under the instructions of Li Ming, dispatched tens of thousands of troops to act with the German army, a large number of rebels were killed by the Germans, dozens of revolutionary troops participated in this suppression more than in history, the resistance compressed space basically collapsed, the Soviet army also suffered defeat in the past two days, a squad of the revolutionary army, a squad of the Japanese allied army went to the vicinity of Warsaw and saw the German army shooting and killing the rebels on the street, the troops quit smoking in the street, Li went upstairs and saw a Jewish woman, the Jewish woman looked Chinese, Several Germans were looking at her with guns, and in order to check the weapons, the woman took off her clothes and showed the Germans, with a smile on her face, long hair touching lipstick, big eyes, wearing long flesh-colored stockings, sandals, and two breasts like big apples that can crush people to death, Li said in German that this is a friend of mine, and the three Germans saw that this was the Führer's Chinese friend, and they didn't dare to offend and say that we went down, sir.

Li Se stared at this young woman's eyes for a long time, charming, good-looking, the Jewish woman named Lisa's husband died in the war, and there was no one else in the family, sir, am I good-looking? Li said Lisa, you are good-looking, Li has a lot of women but has a special feeling for this woman, Lisa said let me repay you to take the sir, Lisa untied Li's skin ****** with her hands, Li closed her eyes, and the two went downstairs after being passionate in the house, and a car came to pick up the two people.