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The Warsaw Uprising of 1944 was ended through a capitulation agreement which guaranteed not only the rights of the resistance to be treated as prisoners of war but also was designed to guarantee the fair treatment of the civilians living in Warsaw.
Some areas fought for a full 63 days before an agreed capitulation took place. The losses on the Polish side amounted to 18,000 soldiers killed, 25,000 wounded and over 250,000 civilians killed; those on the German side amounted to over 17,000 soldiers killed and 9,000 wounded.
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Agreement for the Cessation of Hostilities in Warsaw (Capitulation Document). Pomian, Andrzej. The Warsaw Rising: A Selection of Documents. London, 1945. On October 2nd, 1944, an agreement for the cessation of hostilities in Warsaw was concluded at Ożarów near Warsaw. The plenipotentiary on the German side was SS Obergruppenführer and Police ...
By January 1945, 85 percent of the buildings were destroyed: 25 percent as a result of the Uprising, 35 percent as a result of systematic German actions after the uprising, the rest as a result of the earlier Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (15 percent) and other combat including the September 1939 campaign (10 percent).
1. Planned as a short military revolt, the Warsaw uprising lasted for 63 days. 2. The 1944 Warsaw uprising was the single largest military effort undertaken by resistance forces to oppose German occupation during World War II. 3. In the end, German troops destroyed the majority of Warsaw during and immediately after the uprising.
The Warsaw Uprising, shortly after the war also known as the August Uprising, was a major World War II operation by the Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation. It occurred in the summer of 1944, and it was led by the Polish resistance Home Army.
