Skoncujeme s nimi! Tragický příběh Varšavského povstání 1944 – Jenšík Miloslav (2024)

When SS chief Himmler sent a report to Hitler about the explosion of the Warsaw Uprising, he included two bloodthirsty vengeful sentences that became the title of this book. An incredible sixty-three days of heroic resistance cost the lives of two hundred thousand Warsaw residents. Nazi frenzy during the fighting and after the insurgents' capitulation turned the Polish metropolis into a sea of ruins. One of the most tragic events of the twentieth century remains a living wound in Polish history even sixty-seven years later. It is also a sore spot on the conscience of the victors of World War II. How did the insurgent Armija Krajowa, the Home Army – the largest military force ever prepared in conspiracy for open warfare – come into being and where was it headed? Why did it strike on August 1st? How did the poorly armed 'chlopaci z AK' manage to withstand the overwhelming pressure of heavy weapons for so long? Why didn't the Red Army – which was creating a valuable foothold for an attack on the western bank of the Vistula and further on to Berlin – come to their aid? Did the Western allies exhaust all options for pressuring Stalin on this matter? What were the fates of the surviving insurgents in the suffocating grip of totalitarian tyranny? For decades, honest Polish patriots fought for the true image of the insurgent epic, for the honor that it...