The Warsaw Uprising broke out on 1 August 1944 at 5:00 p.m., ended on 2 October 1944.
Losses on the Polish side:
- 200,000 dead civilians,
- 10,000 dead insurgents,
8,000 missing insurgents,
- 25,000 wounded insurgents,
- 16,000 captured insurgents,
- 3.8 1000 fallen soldiers of the Polish Army,
- 2.7 1000 wounded soldiers of the Polish Army,
- 5,000 dead russian soldiers,
- 165 1000 taken out for forced labour,
- 60,000 sent to concentration camps,
- 335,000 expelled.
Losses on Germany:
- 2,000 dead or missing soldiers and policemen,
9,000 wounded soldiers and police officers,
- 2,000 captured soldiers and policemen,
- 0.2 1000 civilians killed.
The right uses the Rising anniversary to cultivate its own lying narrative. The celebrations are exaggerated. The stadium kind with racami and downtown smoke is indebted to the dead. The Warsaw Uprising monument should change its name to the 1944 Warsaw Uprising Heroes Monument. We should not be putting the flag outside Warsaw on that day. The National Day of Memory of the Warsaw Uprising should be a solemn day exclusively for Warsaw. There should be no halting movement in the hr “W” in Warsaw or anywhere else and we should ignore it.