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Originally posted by Greg_P
Hi,
April 19, 1943 The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins after German troops attempt to deport the ghetto's last surviving Jews. About 750 Jews fought back the Germans for almost a month.
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August 4, 1944 The Allies liberate Florence.
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August 25, 1944 The Allies liberate Paris.
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January 17, 1945 Advancing from the East, Soviet troops capture Warsaw.
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Hi Greg, thank you for you detailed account.
Exactly 59 years ago, on August 1, 1944 at 5 p.m., one of the most tragic events of WWWII took place which you definitely failed to mention.
The Warsaw Uprising... It lasted for two months and 200 000 Warsaw cilians died in its wake. More than 20 000 the Polish underground resistance fighters fought fiercely and in vain though.
Anyone watching the splendid film of Roman Polanski remembered this fact.
Such "forgetfullness" is typical to American society who still obtains a filtered knowledge about WWII.
As a result, everyone knows about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising 1943 and hardly anyone knows anything about incomaprably more extensive, no less tragic and so meanigful event in the European history which was a bizarre combination of pure heroism with the dirty political calculations. I say it with the ultimate respect for the heroic Jewish fighters which, like Mordachay Anielewicz, are names of Warsaw streets now.
Let me say a litlle more about it soon.