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Warsaw in World War II

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Warsaw Uprising
major World War II operation by the Polish resistance Home Army
Warsaw Ghetto
Nazi ghetto in occupied Poland (1940–1943)
Vistula–Oder Offensive
1945 offensive by the Soviet Red Army and Polish Army against Germany
Siege of Warsaw
1939 battle during WWII
Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"
military decoration of the Soviet Union
destruction of Warsaw
plans by Germany
Żegota
Żegota (, full codename: the "Konrad Żegota Committee") was the Polish Council to Aid Jews with the Government Delegation for Poland (), an underground Polish resistance organization, and part of the Polish Underground State, active 1942–45 in German-occupied Poland. Żegota was the successor institution to the Provisional Committee to Aid Jews and was established specifically to save Jews. Poland was the only country in German-occupied Europe where such a government-established and -supported underground organization existed.
Bombing of Warsaw in World War II
aerial bombing of Warsaw in WW II
Siege
1940 documentary short film by Julien Bryan
Wawer massacre
execution against Poles by German Nazis (1939)
Warsaw District
district of Nazi-occupied Poland
Operation Heads
WWII assassinations of Nazi officials in Poland
Operation Arsenal
1943 escape of Jan Bytnar from Nazi German imprisonment
Operation Bürkl
1943 Polish resistance operation
Warszawa Army
Operation Kutschera
assassination (successful) by soldiers of the special unit "Pegaz" (Home Army) of the SS and Police commander in the District Warsaw of the General Governor Franz Kutschera (Aleje Ujazdowskie, Warsaw, Poland; 1944)
Pabst Plan
Nazi plan to rebuild Warsaw as a smaller German town
Nowy Kurier Warszawski
Nazi German newspaper, published in Polish language from October 1939 to January 1945 in General Government
1st Armoured Brigade
Dagobert Frey
Austrian art historian (1883-1962)