Warsaw, 1945. Forgive me if I don't shed any tears.
Exactly. I wouldn’t want a single American to die to prevent Berlin from the fate awaiting it. We lost plenty for the right reasons. But no American GI should have died to save the nazi capitol from someone else.
Just my .02 cents.
Damn that’s cold, I take it your family came from Poland.
The Soviets, in Feb-March 1945, sat in their trenches on the other side of the river from Warsaw. Waiting for the Germans to kill all Poles who were revolting inside the city. When all were dead, or imprisoned to death camps, THEN the Soviets attacked, knowing the German soldiers had been cut down by the Poles, and those Poles who had been resisting - and who would be resisting under the (coming) Russian occupation - had been murdered as well.
As in the Kaitin Forest slaughters of 39-40, the Russians killed all the Poles who might fight back.