Posted on 10/07/2009 1:57:49 PM PDT by Winged Hussar
The most despicable thing about this barrel of feces is that he is equating the follwing two entities:
1) The unfathomable courage of a few hundred desperate young men (and a few dozen women) who sold their lives in the Ghetto Uprising as dearly as possible, killing a few companies - maybe even battalions - of landser (who were thus unavaialable for fighting the Ivans) and thereby redeemed the honor of the millions who never had the chance. To quote Leon Uris in Mila 19, "Not at Thermopylae, not at the Alamo did two more unequal sides engage in combat....." to
2) The Achmeds who murder 20 unarmed wedding guests or pizza parlor patrons.
Yeah, there's a good analogy.
You f*cking wothless little piece of Sh*t.
Please understand that my last sentence referred to Lech Alex Bajan, not you, Donald C.
thank you...
The Warsaw Uprising, was a struggle of the Polish underground which, between August 1, 1944 and October 2, 1944, conducted an armed struggle aimed at liberating Warsaw and its 1,000,000 inhabitants from the German occupation at the time the Soviet army was approaching the city limits from the east.
As the city fought desperately and the Germans began to bring in reinforcements, the reaction of the Soviets was silence. Soviet forces, which had advanced confidently throughout the summer, stopped within miles of Warsaw.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uxonVbEcDc
Some equipment and ammunition was dropped by the Allies, but this was largely ineffective. Since British and American planes werent allowed to land at Soviet air bases a few kilometers away, they were forced to fly from Italy and back, carrying only half their potential load, and dropping it largely into enemy hands. The airlifts were quickly abandoned, and the Poles were left alone to defend their capital.
German forces introduced new types of weapons into Warsaw: Karl Morser heavy mortar, Wufrrehmen incendiary rockets, and Goliath, a remote-controlled vehicle mine. These weapons will play a crucial role in the German offensive: isolated areas were bombarded non-stop by planes, heavy artillery and rockets, then Goliaths and tanks are sent in, followed by the infantry.
During the 63 days of the Uprising, an estimated 200,000 of Warsaw’s inhabitants lost their lives, mostly from mass murders conducted by troops fighting on the German side. Eighty percent of the buildings on the city’s left bank were destroyed. After the suppression of the Uprising, all of the city’s inhabitants both insurgents and civilians were expelled from Warsaw and sent to POW, death, labor, or concentration camps.
Massive and organized looting campaign of the city by Germans began. Delegations from German municipalities were allowed to enter the ruins and strip them of anything that had not already been taken by the Wehrmacht, SS, and Soviet and Ukrainian collaborators.
Postwar Polish assessments claim that 33,000 railway wagons filled with furniture, personal belongings and factory equipment left Warsaw.
After everything of value was carried away, on Hitlers personal orders, Warsaw was systematically leveled, block by block, street by street. By the wars end, one of the great capitals of Europe was a field of rubble, with not a building left standing for miles.
During communist rule in Poland (1945-1989), any commemoration of the Uprising was banned.
Links:
http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/classr...
http://www.warsaw-life.com/poland/war...
http://www.warsawuprising.com/
http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?batt...
http://www.chemistrydaily.com/chemist...
http://www.polonica.net/Powstanie_War...
http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/exhib/...
http://www.polandinexile.com/rising.htm
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