Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw (138 page)

rodek Karta (Warsaw). ‘Dokumenty Brytyjskiej Misji Wojskowej w ZSRR, Sierpie
–Pa
dziernik 1944’ M/II/18 (Documents of the British Military Mission in the USSR August – October, 1944) being copies of documents from the ex-Soviet military archives
supplied by Memorial.
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Piotr Stachiewicz,
‘Parasol’: Dzieje Oddziału do Zada
Specjalnych ‘Kedywu’
(Warsaw, 1984), pp. 467-98.
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Reinefarth was complaining that he had more civilians to shoot than he had ammunition. See
RW
, 5 August 1944.
Impasse. •
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Rokossovsky’s Plan. See A. Ajnenkiel (ed.),
Na oczach Kremla: tragedia walcz
cej Warszawy w
wietle dokumentów rosyjskich
(Warsaw, 1994).
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DWS
, pp. 156, 160.
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Alexander Werth,
Russia at War, 1941-45
(London, 1964), p. 881.
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‘Das satanische Spiel mit Warschau’, reproduced in
RW
, illus tration nr. 99.
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J. Zawodny,
Nothing but Honour
(London, 1978), p. 68.
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Michał Cichy, ‘Czarne Karty Powstania’,
Gazeta Wyborcza
, nr. 24, 29-30 Jan uary 1994: see also Leszek Zabrowski, ‘Fabryka Bdzur o Powstaniu Warszawskim’,
Gazeta Polska
, 13 July 1995.
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AK Pluton 535, commanded by 2Lt. Miroslav Iringh, ‘Stanko’, fighting in 1 Company of the ‘Tur’ Battalion in the ‘Kry
ka’ Grouping. A memorial to them now stands on Cherniakov Street.
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Hanson, op. cit., p. 1.
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42
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J. Marszalec,
Ochrona porz
dku i bezpiecze
stwa publicznego w Powstaniu Warszawskim
(Warsaw, 1999).
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Zawodny, op. cit., p. 64.
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Joanna K. Hanson,
The Civilian Population and the Warsaw Rising of1944
(Cambridge, 1982), pp. 252-8.
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45
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Ibid., p. 257.
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46
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AKD
, IV, 766808.
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Witold Babi
ski,
Przyczyny Historyczne od okresu 1939-45
(London, 1967), esp. Appendix 74A, letter of 8 August from Gen. Sosnkowski to President Raczkiewicz: L.dz/770/GNW/Tj44.
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For example, on 14 August 1944 the National Council failed to agree the wording of a resolution which sought to pay homage to the insurgents in Warsaw and to appeal ‘to the civilized world’ for assistance. Stenogram posiedzenia RN RP, 14 August 1944. APISM A5.4/140.
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The
Manchester Guardian
had clearly obtained this material from the Polish Government. ‘Radio Ko
ciuszko’ was refer ring to the underground operations of the People’s Army. But the conclusions drawn were directed to armed resistance in general, and would have been under stood as such both by listeners in Poland and by readers of the
Manchester Guard ian.
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OK M/II/18, pp. 5-14.
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Winston Churchill,
The Second World War
(London, 1952), vol. IV, p. 117.
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The National Archives (TNA): PRO COPY HS/4/157, MP/CD/6199, MP to CD 17 August, quoted by E. D. R. Harrison, ‘The British Special Operations Executive and Poland’,
Historical Journal
43.4 (Cam bridge, 2000), p. 1989.
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Ibid.
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FDR Library, 12 August 1944, Stettinius to FDR, Map Room Box 19, Doc# red317.
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FDR Library, 15 August 1944, US Joint Chiefs to General Eisenhower. Map Room, Box 33, Doc# WAR 80785. The message ends with the sentence: ‘All such operations [to help Warsaw] must be tied with the Russians.’
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Winston Churchill,
The Second World War
(London, 1952), vol. IV, p. 118.
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Ibid., p. 119.
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Ibid., pp. 123-4.
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Ibid., p. 122.
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Quoted in translation by Hanson, ‘Prasa Brytyjska . . .’, in Ma