Warsaw Rising remembered Poles are commemorating the 61st anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, a massive liberation drive against the overwhelming Nazi German forces. The Polish Resistance launched the rising on August 1 1944 with the hope of seizing Warsaw from the Nazis ahead of the Soviet army which was marching westwards, threatening to impose a communist system on Poland. The outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising was recreated at an open air show with, among other things, fierce fighting for Nazi SS barracks in the Wola district. For most Poles, that doomed rising, which cost the lives of 200,000 Varsovians, is...