Episode 229 - Witold Pilecki, The Auschwitz Volunteer Part 3
Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast
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Warsaw Uprising - It Was Pretty It's a Crazy Story
The Warsaw ghetto uprising occurred as the Nazis overall lot in the war was what I guess you could call it terminal decline since about 1944. Soviet forces were rapidly steamrolling through like the remnants of the Barbarossa force. By this point, Stalin's plans for a very much not independent Poland were very low. So that left them effectively with two options: Lay low until a Soviet showed up, kick the Nazis out and then surrender the home army to the Soviet army.
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