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Chargement... The Warsaw Uprisings, 1943–1944: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives (Images of War)par Ian Baxter
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By 1942 the Nazi leadership had decided that the Jewish ghettos across occupied Poland should be liquidated, with Warsaw's being the largest , processed in phases. In response the left-wing Jewish Combat Organisation (ZOB) and right-wing Jewish Military Union (ZZW) formed and began training, preparing defences and smuggling in arms and explosives. The first Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began in April 1943. Although this was quelled at devastating cost to the Jewish community, resistance continued until the summer of 1944. By this time the Red Army was closing on the city and with liberation apparently imminent the 40,000 resistance fighters of the Polish Home Army launched a second uprising. For sixty-three days the insurgents battled their oppressors on the streets, in ruined buildings and cellars. Rather than come to their aid the Russians waited and watched the inevitable slaughter. This gallant but tragic struggle is brought to life in this book by the superb collection of photographs drawn from the album compiled for none other than Heinrich Himmler entitled Warschauer Aufstand 1944. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Ian Baxter has uncovered once again some rare wartime photographs from Warsaw archives which many in the Western Europe tend to ignore. This is the reason why Baxter is one of the best researchers on the Second World War and everything that happened in the eastern theatre of war. He often brings to the fore issues that are often “forgotten” here in the west or only remembered by a few groups. The Warsaw Uprisings are one of those forgotten war crimes and as any of the survivors become less every year, this book becomes even more important.
In 1942 the Nazi leadership had decided that it was time that the Jewish Ghettos in occupied Poland should be liquidised. Warsaw’s ghetto was the largest, and the liquidisation was done in a number of phases. Baxter’s narrative is not controversial it is straightforward and makes it easy for the reader to understand.
The Warsaw Uprising which took place, first with the Jewish responses of the Jewish Combat Organisation (ZOB) and the Jewish Military Union (ZZW) fought against the Nazi occupiers. The Nazi regime quashed violently in April 1943, but this would go on when even the Polish Home Army were involved in 1944. In 1944 the Red Army allowed the Nazis to continue the quashing of any revolt from Jew and Pole alike as they knew it would be easier for them to suppress opposition at a later date with the “work” having been done for them.
The pictures in this excellent book show the streets and buildings that were destroyed along with the lives of all those involved. This is a superb and haunting collection of pictures that shows Warsaw that was being destroyed over a year. This book shows the devastation that the SS brought on to the city by blowing up houses and streets and then putting a concentration camp in their place to help them deal with the uprisings.
The actual number of Polish and Jewish organisations deaths is unknown but thought to be around 22,000 and we know that the Nazis lost 11,000 soldiers. The civilian population bore the brunt of the disaster of the uprising with somewhere between 150,000 and 200, 000 deaths, with 500, 000 surrendering to the Germans in October 1944.
Another excellent and haunting book from Ian Baxter. (