Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw (142 page)

ski, quoted in
DWS
, p. 316.
•
178
.
DWS
, p. 324.
•
179
.
Kazimierz Wierzy
ski, ‘A wi
c stało si
’, quoted by Bartoszewski,
DWS
, p. 330.

•
1
.
J. Zawodny,
Nothing but Honour
(London, 1978), p. 193.
•
2
.
RW
, p. 377.
•
3
.
Ibid.
•
4
.
DWS
, p. 339: not confirmed in
RW
, p. 380.
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5
.
RGVA, OK M/II/18, 5 October 1944.
•
6
.
Ibid., 6 October 1944.
•
7
.
Ibid., 10 October 1944.
•
8
.
Bij
ce Serce Partii: Dzienniki Personalne Ministerstwa Publicznego
(Warsaw, 2001), p. 366.
•
9
.
Ibid., pp. 352–75.
•
10
.
Tribune
, 6 October 1944. The
Observer
added its voice to those expressing sympathy. In a leader called ‘Warsaw and the Allies’, it commented: ‘a proud and once flourishing capital will not be found on the map of Europe when the cease fire sounds . . . Should not the rebuilding of this tragic and heroic city be made a common Allied responsibility.’
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11
.
M. Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill
(London, 1986), vol. VII,
1941–45
, pp. 991–3.
•
12
.
Jan Karski,
The Great Powers and Poland
(Lanham, MD, 1985), pp. 545–56.
•
13
.
Ibid., p. 547.
•
14
.
T. Barman,
Diplomatic Correspondence
(London, 1968), pp. 175–6.
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15
.
GARF, f9401, op2, d66, l395–97, Beria to Stalin, 15 October 1944.
•
16
.
Jeffrey Bines,
Operation Freston
(Saffron Walden, 1999), p. 18.
•
17
.
Ibid., p. 17.
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18
.
Ibid., p. 61.
•
19
.
Ibid., pp. 67–8.
•
20
.
Ibid., pp. 73–4.
•
21
.
Ibid., p. 74.
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22
.
P. Solly-Flood, ‘Pilgrimage to Poland’,
Blackwood’s Magazine
, nr. 1657 (May, 1951), pp. 425–41.
•
23
.
Ibid., p. 441. Additional information derives from the author’s interview with Messrs Pospieszalski, Zaremba, and Bines, Southgate, December 2002.
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24
.
IWM Sound Archive, Lady Ryder of Warsaw, 1987, reel 2, quoted by E. D. R. Harrison, ‘The British Special Operations Executive and Poland’,
Historical Journal
43.4 (Cambridge, 2000), p. 1090.
•
25
.
GARF, f9401, op2, d67, Beria to Stalin, 9 November 1944, and f9401, op2, d68, u93–9, Beria to Stalin, 8 December 1944.
•
26
.
Marek Ney-Krwawicz,
The Polish Home Army, 1939–45
(London, 2001), pp. 139–41. (
Biuletyn Informacyjny
, nr. 317, 19 January 1945. AKD. vol. V, pp. 239–40.)
•
27
.
Stanisław Supłatowicz, ‘Kozak’, Sat-Okh’,
Biuletyn Informacyjny
, XIII, nr. 10 (162), October 2003, pp. 52–6.
•
28
.
GARF f9401, op2, d92, Serov to Beria, p. 145.
•
29
.
Moscow held the view that the Soviet Army liberated Warsaw in January 1945, and struck a medal to mark the occasion. See plate section 3, ‘Images true and false’.
•
30
.
Radio Polskie, Warsaw, 18, 20, 25 March 1945. Translated transcript, The National Archives (TNA): PRO COPY FO371/47733A.
•
31
.
Stefan Korbo
ski,
The Polish Underground State
(Boulder, Colorado), p. 216.
•
32
.
Ibid., pp. 218–19.
•
33
.
Anthony Beevor,
Berlin: the Downfall
(London, 2002).
•
34
.
The ‘Special Files’ for I. V. Stalin from the Secretariat of the NKVD – MVD of the USSR, 1944–53, V. A. Kozlov, S. V. Mironenko (eds),
Archive of Contemporary History
, vol. I
(Moscow, GARF), 1944.
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35
.
USSR People’s Commissariat of Justice,
Trial of the Organizers, Leaders and members of the Polish Diversionist Organizations . . . June 18–21, 1945
(Moscow, 1945): see also Z. Stypułkowski,
Invitation to Moscow
(New York, 1962).
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36
.
No number is attached to this file, though it appears to belong to GARF, f9401, op2, d94, which, among other items, contains a batch of other files all dated April 1945 and all relating to the arrest and early interrogations of ‘the Sixteen’.
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37
.
Ibid., p. 2.
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38
.
Ibid., p. 24.
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39
.
Ibid., pp. 34–5.
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40
.
The National Archives (TNA): PRO COPY HS4/256.
•
41
.
On the Moscow Trial of 1945, see, A. Chmielarz, A. Kunert,
Proces szesnastu: dokumenty NKWD
(Warsaw, 1995), trans lated as
The Moscow Trial
(Warsaw, 2000): also E. Duraczy
ski,
Generał Iwanow zaprasza
(Warsaw, 1989): as an example of Soviet propaganda, the National Council for American–Soviet Friendship,
The Case of the 16 Poles and the Plot for War on the USSR
(New York, 1945).
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42
.
Dr G. Bolsover, 1947–77, Director of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London.
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43
.
The National Archives (TNA): PRO COPY FO371 47621. Lord Dunglass, later Sir Alec Douglas-Home (1903–95), British Prime Minister, 1963–64.
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44
.
Ibid., ‘Memor andum on the Trial of General Okulicki and other Poles by the Military College of the Supreme Court of the USSR’.
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45
.
The National Archives (TNA): PRO COPY FO N8715/35/55, 18 July 1945.
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46
.
Ibid.
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47
.
Poland during the First Half of 1945
(London, 1945), p. 1.
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48
.
Speech by Col. M. D
browski in ibid., p. 53.
•
49
.
Ibid., p. 87.
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50
.
The National Archives (TNA): PRO COPY FO N0917/35/ 55, 12 June 1945.
•
51
.
T. Cariewskaya et al.,
Teczka Specjalna J. W. Stalina: Raporty NKWD z Polski, 1944–46
(Warsaw, 1998), nrs 6–11.
•
52
.
GARF, f9401, op2, d66 l141.
Teczka Specjalna
, op. cit., nr. 9. 23 August 1944.
•
53
.
GARF, f9401, op2, d66 l362.
Teczka Specjalna
, op. cit., nr. 11. 7 October 1944.
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54
.
GARF, f9401, op2, d66 l288–90.
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55
.
Ludwika Zacharasiewicz: see capsule GHOST TOWN (p. 492), with endnote.
•
56
.
Bolesław Taborski, ‘Moja Wojna – pocz
tek i koniec’
ZH
, 1996, nr. 118, pp. 45–94.
•
57
.
Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse,
Microcosm: A Portrait of a Central European City
(London, 2002), p. 389.
•
58
.
Ibid., passim.
•
59
.
Tadeusz Borowski (1922–51), see his
This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen
(London, 1967).
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60
.
Wacława Lutoborska (1901–45). Her name is recorded inaccurately on a memorial tablet at Belsen. Interview with Mr Lutoborski, Warsaw (2001).
•
61
.
Mauthausen Survivors Documentation Project is now in progress at the Boltzmann Institute, Vienna, with a Polish branch at the Karta Centre, Warsaw.
•
62
.
On Ravensbrück, see Denise Dufournier,
Ravensbruck: the women’s camp of death
(London, 1948): also Wanda Połtawska,
And I am afraid of my dreams
(London, 1987).
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63
.
Władysław Szpilman,
The Pianist: the Extraordinary True Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
(New York, 2000), pp. 171–2;
Pianista
(Kraków, 2000), pp. 161–2.
•
64
.
Ibid., pp. 176–8.
•
65
.
Cariewskaya et al.,
Teczka specjalna J. W. Stalina
, op. cit., nr. 23, pp. 105–6.
•
66
.
L. Bartelski,
Praga: Warszawskie Termopile 1944
(Warsaw, 2000), pp. 142–3.
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67
.
GARF, f9401, op2, d68, p. 3.
•
68
.
GARF, f9401, op2, d68, pp. 284–8.
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69
.
On Piasecki, see L. Blit,
The Eastern Pretender
(London, 1965): also Antoni Dudek, Grzegorz Pytel,
Bolesław Piasecki: próba biografii politycznej
(London, 1990).
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70
.
Blit, op. cit., p. 15.
•
71
.
Ferdynand Ossendowski (1878–1945): ‘Pisarz i podró