Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler and the Crushing of a City
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Alexandra Richie. Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler and the Crushing of a City
WARSAW 1944. Hitler, Himmler and the Crushing of a City. Alexandra Richie
Copyright
Illustrations
Maps
INTRODUCTION
1. BYELORUSSIAN PRELUDE
The Bandit Wars
Practising Murder
Von dem Bach and the Partisan War
The Very Face of Evil
2. TO THE VERY GATES OF WARSAW
Bagration
The Great Offensive
At the Berezina
To Kill Hitler
3. OSTPOLITIK
The City on the Vistula
The Terror
The German Retreat
4. RESISTANCE
The Creation of the Home Army
The Troublesome Poles
Operation ‘Tempest’
The Decision is Taken
5. THE UPRISING BEGINS
Godzina W
Monter’s List
Success and Liberation
The Taste of Freedom
6 ‘HIMMLER HAS WON’
The German Response
Banditen in Warsaw
Model Strikes Back
Hitler’s Rage
The Order for Warsaw
The Appointments
7. THE MASSACRE IN WOLA
Reinefarth Begins
The Dirlewanger Brigade
‘Tradecraft’
‘The Hospitals are Burning’
A New Approach
8. THE FATE OF OCHOTA
The Kaminski Brigade
The RONA ‘Clowns’
The Radium Institute
Zieleniak
Rape
The Wawelska Redoubt
Von dem Bach
Pruszków
9 ‘MOUNTAINS OF CORPSES’
The End of Wola
The Flight from the West
The Funeral
Verbrennungskommando
The SS Men
10. HITLER’S WAR AGAINST THE OLD TOWN
The Fortress
Hitler’s Siege
The Underground City
The Noose Tightens
To the Sewers
Spilker’s Work
11. THE ALLIES, HITLER AND THE BATTLE FOR CZERNIAKÓW
The First Battle of the Cold War
The Battle for Warsaw
Stalin and the Uprising
The Battle for Praga
The Fall of Czerniaków
Stalin’s Game
‘The First Battle of World War III’
12. THE END GAME
Mokotów
Żoliborz
The City Centre
Von dem Bach and the Bid for Peace
The Surrender
The Civilians Leave
Pruszków Camp
The Destruction of Warsaw
Führer Order: Warsaw Will be Levelled to the Ground
CONCLUSION
‘The New German City of Warsaw’
Defeat at the Vistula
The Soviet Offensive
The Bleak Midwinter
‘The Robinsons’
Coming Home
Allied Amnesia
The End
Living Memory
Guide to Polish Pronunciation
German Ranks
Picture Section
Footnotes. 1. Byelorussian Prelude
2. To the Very Gates of Warsaw
4. Resistance
5. The Uprising Begins
7. The Massacre in Wola
8. The Fate of Ochota
11. The Allies, Hitler and the Battle for Czerniaków
12. The End Game
Notes
Introduction
Chapter 1: Byelorussian Prelude
Chapter 2: To the Very Gates of Warsaw
Chapter 3: Ostpolitik
Chapter 4: Resistance
Chapter 5: The Uprising Begins
Chapter 6: ‘Himmler Has Won’
Chapter 7: The Massacre in Wola
Chapter 8: The Fate of Ochota
Chapter 9: ‘Mountains of Corpses’
Chapter 10: Hitler’s War Against the Old Town
Chapter 11: The Allies, Hitler and the Battle for Czerniaków
Chapter 12: The End Game
Conclusion
Bibliography
Contemporary Underground Publications
Index
Author’s Note and Acknowledgements
About the Author
From the reviews of Warsaw 1944:
By the same author
About the Publisher
Отрывок из книги
For Antonia and Caroline
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Traditionally, the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto and the Warsaw Uprising have been treated as two entirely separate events. This is understandable, as the liquidation of the ghetto and the murder of its inhabitants is a unique and terrible crime in history. Even so, the story of Warsaw’s Jewish population did not begin or entirely end with the destruction of the ghetto. It is often forgotten that many Jews were also killed in the bombing of 1939, and that many of those who survived the horrors of the ghetto would die in the 1944 uprising or its aftermath. Throughout, I have tried to trace the fate of some who did manage to survive – Władysław Szpilman and Stanisław Aronson amongst others – in an attempt to show the uniquely perilous existence they led in the wartorn city. I have also tried to show that the Jewish tragedy was also a tragedy for the city of Warsaw in its entirety, and also affected the uprising of 1944. As Gunnar Paulsson put it, ‘Ninety-eight per cent of the Jewish population of Warsaw perished in the Second World War, together with one-quarter of the Polish population: in all, some 720,000 souls … undoubtedly the greatest slaughter perpetrated within a single city in human history’.6 My references to Carthage are a deliberate attempt to emphasize the epic scale of the tragedy of this city.
When Adolf Hitler had lunch with his Minister Dr Hans Lammers in 1942 he introduced an unexpected topic to the conversation. ‘It is ridiculous,’ he said, ‘for a poacher to be sent to prison for three months for killing a hare when there are so many real criminals who serve no time. I myself should have taken the fellow and put him into one of the guerrilla companies of the SS!’32
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