The Warsaw uprising is a microcosm of the second world war and the impossible choices it imposed on people who bore no blame for the wickedness around them. The German occupation of Poland was a regime of unparalleled harshness, involving mass murder (particularly of Polish Jews) and the deliberate destruction of national spirit and culture. Against the odds, the Poles built a sophisticated underground administration and army, loyal to the exiled government in London.
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