Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw (163 page)

Rising: begins
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; known to Western powers in advance
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; ordered
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; conduct of battle
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; civilians trapped
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; civilian attitude to
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; British press reactions to
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; hospital treatment in
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; Orwell defends against Barraclough
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; Anders’ critical view of
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; religious institutions and practice in
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; ends
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; Telegin’s report on
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; dispersal and fate of insurgents
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; anniversaries
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; disparaged after war
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; no public monument built
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; writings and films on
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; post-war Warsaw regime seeks information on
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; absent from Nuremberg agenda
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; later attitudes to
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; memorials to
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; Solidarity movement and
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; commemorated
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; assessed and evaluated
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see also
Home Army

Ritchie, Air Vice Marshal
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Roberts, Frank
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‘Robinson Crusoes’
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Rohr, Gen.
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Rokossovskaya, Julia Petrovna
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Rokossovsky, Marshal Konstantin K.: reported in
The Times
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; July 1944 offensive
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; background and career
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; military commands
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; relations with Berling
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; and ethnic composition of conquered lands
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; advance
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; under political control
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; waits outside Warsaw
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; view of Warsaw
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; Home Army analysis of moves
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; intentions unknown to Mikołajczyk
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; withdraws before German counterattack
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; in position to aid Rising
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; offensive plans
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; ordered to transfer 48th Tank Army to East Prussia
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; repels German counterattack
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; views on Rising
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; Allied attempts to contact
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; approach to Warsaw
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; penetrates outer Warsaw
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; occupies Praga
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; contact with Home Army
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; and Berling’s crossing River Vistula
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; plans pincer movement
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; withholds support from Berling
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; military conference in Moscow
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; replaced by Zhukov
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; Komorowski’s final appeal to
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; assigned to Baltic front
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; appointed Poland’s Minister of Defence
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Romania
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Rome: liberated (1944)
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Rommel, Gen. Erwin
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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano: and US dominance
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; and US entry into war
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; age and world view
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; supports British war effort
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; opposes Soviet expansionism
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; Sikorski visits
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; at Casablanca conference
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; tolerance of USSR
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; Tabor and Mikołajczyk meet
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; makes compromises with Stalin over territory
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; relations with Sikorski
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; aware of proposed Polish Rising
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; support for Poles
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; reluctance to support Rising
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; and Soviet unwillingness to help Poles
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; urges Stalin to grant landing rights in USSR
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; Churchill meets at Quebec (Sept. 1944)
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; policy on post-war German economy
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; seeks joint staff planning with Stalin
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; and Presidential Election (1944)
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; decorates Anders
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; National Council appeals to
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; makes aid to Warsaw dependent on Soviet cooperation
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; absent from Churchill’s Moscow meeting with Stalin
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; and agreement on post-war Poland
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; renounces Churchill’s Polish settlement proposals
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; attends Yalta Conference
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; relations with Churchill
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; relations with Stalin
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see also
Teheran Conference; United States of America

Roper-Caldbeck, Terry
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Rose, William J.
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Rowecki, Gen. Stefan (‘Grot’)
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Royal Air Force (RAF): Polish squadrons and fliers with
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; wins Battle of Britain
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; airdrops to Warsaw
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; bombs Baltic coast
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; losses
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; refused landing rights in USSR
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; bombs Auschwitz
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Units:
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Group
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Special Operations Wing
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; (Polish) 1586 Special Duties Flight
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; Polish
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Bomber Squadron (‘Defenders of Warsaw’)
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