An ad card of Batalion "Burza", a Polish living history organization. Their website, as on the reverse of the card, is www.baalionburza.com
Why this card today? August 1, 2014 marks the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, where the Polish Armia Krajowa (Home Army) and citizens of Warsaw rose up against their Nazi occupiers. The Poles, attempting to liberate the capital, battled the Germans throughout the city from August 1 to October 2, 1944, while allied Soviet forces mostly waited on the other side of the river.
Estimates range from 10,000 members of the AK were killed in action with 150,000 to 200,000 civilians killed. Between the initial invasion of the country in 1939, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, and general planned German destruction of the city, 85% of Warsaw was destroyed by January 1945.
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