Warsaw Uprising
August 1 – October 2, 1944 · Warsaw
Result German victory
Rising by the Polish Home Army against the German occupation of Warsaw, timed for the approach of the Red Army. The insurgents held out for 63 days without Soviet help; after their surrender the Germans destroyed most of the city.
Axis
Allies
Units
19th Panzer Division
Luftwaffe
Albert Kesselring
Alexander Löhr
Alfred Schlemm
Hans Graf von Sponeck
Helmut Schmidt
Hermann Göring
Hugo Sperrle
Karl Carstens
Kurt Kuhlmey
Kurt Student
Leonhard Kaupisch
Max Pruss
Otto Deßloch
Prince Christoph of Hesse
Walter Scheel
Werner Junck
Wolfram von Richthofen
First Polish Army (1944–1945)
28th Infantry Division (Poland)
Polish Air Forces in France and Great Britain
Royal Air Force
Anthony Barber
Anthony Greenwood
Arthur Coningham
Cecil Parkinson
Cuthbert Sebastian
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall
Ezer Weizman
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk
George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth
George VI
Glafcos Clerides
Guy Gibson
Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester
Hassanal Bolkiah
Hugh Dowding
Hussein I of Jordan
Ian Smith
Keith Park
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood
Merlyn Rees
Neville Chamberlain
Nicholas Medforth-Mills
Peter II of Yugoslavia
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
Princess Alexandra of Kent
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester
Reginald Maudling
Rex Hunt
Robert Brooke-Popham
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood
Shlomo Shamir
Stuart Peach, Baron Peach
T. E. Lawrence
Trafford Leigh-Mallory
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate
William, Prince of Wales
Prince George, Duke of Kent
Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke
South African Air Force
Soviet Air Forces
United States Army Air Forces
Paul Tibbets
Lloyd Bentsen
William Rehnquist
Before and after
- Ended by
- Capitulation after the Warsaw Uprising October 3, 1944
