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Warsaw Uprising in colour
Daily Mail UK ^ | 08/20/2013 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 08/20/2013 8:39:40 AM PDT by DFG

Black and white silent footage taken during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis have been turned into a mesmerising feature movie with sound and colour.

The film is a riveting account of the fierce house-to-house fighting against the German army that began on August 1 and ended 63 days later with the insurgents surrendering, following the deaths of some 200,000 rebels and residents.

Titled Warsaw Rising, the film shows the crews that the Polish resistance Home Army sent fanning through the city to chronicle the uprising.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1943; poland; treblinka; warsaw
Original title: Warsaw Uprising in colour: Black and white pictures taken during doomed 1944 revolt against the Nazis turned into incredible feature movie with sound and colour
1 posted on 08/20/2013 8:39:40 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG; snippy_about_it

Thanks for posting this article.


2 posted on 08/20/2013 8:57:19 AM PDT by SAMWolf (Looking for my generations Lexington and Concord.)
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To: DFG

I was just going to post this, before I saw you had already posted it. Thanks.

Some other incredible videos:

Warsaw - 1935
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYLfEIvIbUY

And in the aftermath

City of Ruins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx3aGiurRbQ


3 posted on 08/20/2013 9:20:01 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: DFG

There Is A City
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejd2rsXoQSI


4 posted on 08/20/2013 9:23:58 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Cronos

Ping.


5 posted on 08/20/2013 9:28:36 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DFG

The real tragedy was after the war, those who survived the Uprising were treated as criminals by the Communists, many were jailed, some were executed.


6 posted on 08/20/2013 9:31:09 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SAMWolf
Thanks for posting this article.

I second that.

I predict we'll have our own Warsaw Uprisings in due time.

7 posted on 08/20/2013 9:40:22 AM PDT by Standing Wolf (No tyrant should ever be allowed to die of natural causes.)
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To: DFG

The Germans were caught flat-footed by the uprising, with only about 18,000 troops in Warsaw when it began, and many of those were the useless drunks of the Ukrainian RONA, Russians “Volunteers” in German service.

Bronislav Kaminski, commander of S.S. Sturmbrigade R.O.N.A.(The Russian National Liberation Army), was more interested in looting, than putting down the rebellion, and his 2,000 troops quickly turned in to a violent rabble, allowing the rebellion to take hold. His men murdered around 10,000 Polish civilians (mostly non-Jewish) trying to get to the good stuff.

Where Kaminski screwed up was not in letting the rebellion grow, but in not delivering the stolen loot to Himmler, and keeping it. He was executed on Himmler’s orders.

It was not until the butchers of Oskar Dirlewanger’s brigade were pulled from anti-partisan duty and sent in to Warsaw that the rebellion was put down.

There a lots of atrocity stories about German troops that were made-up propaganda, but Dirlewanger was THE REAL DEAL, a complete butcher and pedophile, who got off (literally) on murdering people, and watching them die. This guy, and his men, who were German Army criminals, Russian Criminals, and Ukrainians, were the bloodiest butchers of the East.

The Russians were under orders from Stalin himself to kill them on sight, without mercy.


8 posted on 08/20/2013 10:05:57 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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To: tcrlaf

Meanwhile, the Red Army sat on Warsaw’s doorstep and did nothing while the Germans destroyed Warsaw.


9 posted on 08/20/2013 10:31:13 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: dfwgator

the UK and France went to war over Hitler taking Poland, while 5+ years later, the allies simply gave Poland to Stalin.


10 posted on 08/20/2013 10:31:56 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: DFG

Sad fight: Much too little and too late. A lesson for all: Be armed and maintain your strength in weapons, logistics, and personal capabilities.


11 posted on 08/20/2013 10:34:18 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: dfwgator

Yes, my comment was going to be : “thanks 4 all the hard work, guys.....but you are now going to be controlled by the Soviet Union.” I don’t think enough has been written or analyzed about the dynamics o* the way large parts o the world were allocated to Stalin.


12 posted on 08/20/2013 11:03:25 AM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: PGR88

Or as I put it, “Germany got The Marshall Plan, while Poland got the Marshall Stalin Plan.”


13 posted on 08/20/2013 4:08:16 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Matt_DZ_PL

Ping


14 posted on 08/20/2013 7:36:15 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator
Thanks.
This is truly glamorous. The movie makes that those Warsaw Rising heroes will never fade away. Their smiles, their glances, their sacrifice and valor, their pain and tears, all that communists tried to wipe out from the nation’s memory, will be here to stay forever.
15 posted on 08/22/2013 12:13:10 AM PDT by Matt_DZ_PL
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To: dfwgator

A great series of more than 50 episodes was shot in Poland about it. Its name is Czas Honoru (free translation - Time of Honor), though its official English title is Glory Days. See the spot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxz2-pAJdSE


16 posted on 08/22/2013 12:32:50 AM PDT by Matt_DZ_PL
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