by George Bruce
[163] PSZ, p 665
[164] Kliszko, Warsaw Uprising
[165] I. Orska, Silent is the Vistula, p 12
[166] W. Zagorski, Seventy Days, p 21
[167] Korbonski, Fighting Warsaw, p 350
[168] The Pattern of Soviet Domination, p 78
[169] Op cit, p 79
[170] The Secret Army, p 222
[171] The Secret Army, p 222
[172] Borkiewicz, The Warsaw Uprising, p 58
[173] Ibid
[174] Ibid
[175] W. Bartoszewski, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski
[176] Ibid, quoting testimony of von dem Bach at Nuremberg
[177] Borkiewicz, Warsaw Insurrection, p 78
[178] Personal statement to author
[179] Military Dispatches, p 2 (A. Pomian)
[180] Op cit, p 4
[181] Ldz 6366/tjn/44, PUST
[182] Document 180, DOPSR, Vol 2
[183] Ibid
[184] Note 186, DOPSR, Vol 2
[185] The Secret Army, p 237
[186] Op cit, p 239
[187] Military Dispatches, p 3
[188] Ldz 6342/tjn/44, PUST
[189] Garlinski, Poland, SOE and The Allies, p 185 et seq.
[190] Military Dispatches, p 5
[191] Borkiewicz, Warsaw Insurrection, p 140
[192] War Diary, No 11, 9th Army Command
[193] Warsaw Insurrection, p 141 (Borkiewicz)
[194] Account given to Institute of National Memories, Warsaw, 1947
[195] Warsaw Insurrection, p 142 (Borkiewicz)
[196] Ibid, quoting Franz Krug’s account, 19.8.44
[197] Von Krannhals, Warschauer Aufstand, p 138
[198] Central Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland, Vol 1, p 188, Warsaw, 1946
[199] Op cit, p 205
[200] Op cit, p 207
[201] Op cit, p 212
[202] Op cit, p 222
[203] Komorowski, The Secret Army, p 244
[204] Document 184, DOPSR, Vol 2
[205] Werth, Russia at War, p 781
[206] Op cit, p 783
[207] Warsaw Insurrection, p 162 et seq (Rorkiewicz)
[208] Bartoszewski, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, p 38
[209] Op cit, p 40
[210] Document 189, DOPSR, Vol 2
[211] The Germans in fact began their offensive with these divisions at dawn on 1 August.
[212] Ibid
[213] Ibid
[214] 9th Army War Diary No 11, pp 384-7
[215] Document 1919, DOPSR, Vol 2
[216] 9th Army War Diary No 11, pp 394-7
[217] Borkiewicz, Warsaw Insurrection, p 169
[218] Op cit, p 170
[219] Note 188, DOPSR, Vol 2
[220] Warsaw Insurrection, p 175
[221] Ibid, quoting Acts of Heeresgruppe Mitte, AOK 9, lanr. 3998 IC.
[222] Von Krannhals, Warschauer Aufstand, p 140
[223] Warsaw Insurrection, p 190
[224] The Secret Army, p 271
[225] Ibid, p 270
[226] L. Bartelski, Warsaw Uprising
[227] Warsaw Insurrection, p 180
[228] Ldz/6687/tjn/44, PUST
[229] Military Dispatches, p 8 (A. Pomian)
[230] Ldz/6753/tjn/44, PUST
[231] Military Dispatches, p 9
[232] The Secret Army, p 294
[233] Warsaw Insurrection, p 194
[234] Op cit, p 196
[235] Document 192, DOPSR, Vol 2
[236] Document 194, DOPSR, Vol 2
[237] Churchill, Second World War, Vol VI, p 117
[238] Churchill, Second World War, Vol VI, p 117
[239] Document 198, DOPSR, Vol 2
[240] Second World. War, p 118
[241] Document 201, DOPSR, Vol 2
[242] Poland, SOE and The Allies, p 191
[243] Warsaw Insurrection, p 209
[244] Komorowski, The Unconquerables, p 149
[245] The Secret Army, p275
[246] Ibid
[247] Ibid, p 277
[248] Account given to Institute of National Memories, Warsaw, published in the quarterly Dzie je Najnowsze, Vol 1, p 316
[249] Ibid
[250] Zagorski, Seventy Days, p 98
[251] Warsaw Insurrection, p 215, quoting Journal of Radosław’s Group
[252] Ldz 7042/tjn/44, PUST
[253] Warsaw Insurrection, p 228, quoting Acts of Heeresgruppe Mitte, AOK 9 Merkblatt, 21.8.44
[254] Churchill, Second World War, Vol VI, p 119
[255] Ibid
[256] Document 205, DOPSR, Vol 2
[257] Second World War, Vol VI, 123
[258] Ibid
[259] The Secret Army, p 305
[260] L. Bartelski, Mokotow, 1944
[261] Second World War, Vol VI, p 125
[262] Ibid, p 126
[263] Warsaw Insurrection, p 239
[264] Ibid, p 277
[265] Komorowski, The Unconquerables, p156
[266] Borkiewicz, Warsaw Insurrection, p 290
[267] Op cit, p 298
[268] Op cit, p 299
[269] Ibid
[270] The Unconquerables, p 157
[271] Ninth Army War Diary, pp 460-1
[272] Kliszko, Warsaw Uprising
[273] The Secret Army, p 335
[274] Korbonski, Fighting Warsaw, p 390
[275] The Secret Army, p 337
[276] Military Dispatches, p 20
[277] Fighting Warsaw, p 377
[278] Military Dispatches, p 22
[279] Fighting Warsaw, p 387
[280] Military Dispatches, p 22
[281] Ldz 8652, PUST
[282] AOK 9, pp 489-90
[283] Military Dispatches, p 25
[284] Kliszko, Warsaw Uprising
[285] The Secret Army, p 350
[286] Kliszko, op cit
[287] Von Krannhals, Warschauer Aufstand, p 195
[288] The Secret Army, p 353
[289] Ibid, p 354
[290] Ibid
[291] Ibid
[292] Von dem Bach had court-martialled and executed Kaminski a few days earlier.
[293] Warschauer Aufstand, p 196
[294] Kirchmayer, p 407
[295] PSZ, Vol III, pp 784-5
[296] Kliszko, op cit
[297] Ibid
[298] Ibid
[299] Personal statement to author
[300] Silent is the Vistula, p 270