1. 1944

2. On July 27th German Governor of occupied Warsaw issued an order for 100,000 men and women to report for work on fortifications to stop advancing Soviet troops. Nobody came. 3. Expecting reprisals, defiance was punishable by death, Polish underground leaders ordered a mobilization of all Home Army (resistance) forces, 20,000 men and women. 4. By the end of July the mobilization of thousands of young men and women was hard, if not impossible, to conceal. On August 1st at 5:00 pm. the orders were given to start the uprising. 5. While enthusiastic, in the beginning the insurgents were poorly armed. Most of their weapons were handguns. 6. In the first 4 days they seized major German arsenal but failed to capture many important heavily fortified military assets. 7. Polish Boy & Girl Scouts joined the fight. 8. German forces used heavy artillery and an air force. 9. Soldiers of Home Army 10. Poland's "greatest generation" 11. Unable to defeat the insurgents special SS units started to go home to home killing all inhabitants regardless of age or sex. 12. Total and ... 13. indiscriminate destruction 14. Capitulation after 63 days Polish forces have run out of ammunition and food. 15. After capitulation the entire civilian population of Warsaw was expelled from the city and sent to a labour or concentration camps (including Auschwitz and Mauthausen). 16. German casualties: 7,000 9,000 KIA 7,000 MIA 310 TANKS 340 TRUCKS 17. Polish casualties: Insurgents: 10,000 KIA 6,000 MIA 15,000 POW Civilians: 150,000 200,000 KILLED 700,000 EXPELLED 18. For more information please visit: WARSAW RISING OF 1944