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ski,
Hitler’s Last Weapons: the Underground War against the V1 and the V2
(London, 1977).

50
.
‘Armed action? Yes – but limited’, Bl 1 April 1943, quoted by Ney-Krwawicz, op. cit., pp. 164–5.

51
.
The Stroop Report
(London, 1980).

52
.
Ibid., passim.

53
.
M. Edelman,
Getto walczy: udział Bundu w obronie getta warszawskiego
(Warsaw, 1945), also
The Ghetto Fights
(London, 1945): W. Bartoszewski,
The Warsaw Ghetto: a Christian’s Testimony
(London, 1989).

54
.
Leon Uris,
Mila 18
(London, 1963).

55
.
Czesław Miłosz, ‘Campo di Fiori’, from
Collected Poems, 1931–87
(London, 1988).

56
.
M. Gilbert,
Auschwitz and the Allies
(London, 1981): The Abandonment of the Jews.

57
.
Israel Gutman, ‘Emanuel Ringelblum: The Chronicles of the Warsaw Ghetto’,
Polin
, vol. 3, 1988, pp. 5–16: see also E. Ringelblum,
Polish–Jewish Relations during the Second World War
(Jerusalem, 1974).

58
.
Stefan Korbo
ski,
The Polish Underground State
, op. cit., p. 168.

59
.
Ney-Krwawicz, op. cit., pp. 27–31.

60
.
PSZ, vol. II, p. 332.

61
.
Note by Capt. Zamoyski of conversation between Col. Mitkiewicz and Gen. Macready, n.d. early
June 1943. (NB: Macready had opened by expressing his condolences for the recent death of Gen. Sikorski.) HIA, Poland, Sikorski Microfilm Collection, Reel 137.

62
.
See HIA, Col. L. Mitkiewicz Collection. InterAllied discussions 1943–44 on US and UK support by air for the Home Army.

63
.
Hull–Roosevelt, 23 Novem ber 1943. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park.

64
.
Ney-Krwawicz, op. cit., pp. 32–3.

65
.
PSZ, vol. III, p. 209.

66
.
Ibid., p. 210.

67
.
Korbo
ski, op. cit., p. 170.

68
.
Appendix to letter from Sosnkowski to President Raczkiewicz, 6 July 1944. SPP, Ldz Osob/GNW/tj/44. Quoted by Jan M. Ciechanowski,
The Warsaw Rising of 1944
(Cambridge, 1974), p. 285.

69
.
Ibid., p. 290.

70
.
SPP, Ldz 5480/44, JMC, p. 285.

71
.
W. Anders,
An Army in Exile
(Nashville, 1981), p. 201.

72
.
AKD
, IV, nr. 714, 25 July 1944.

73
.
AKD
, IV, nr. 715, 25 July 1944.

74
.
AKD
, IV, nr. 725.

75
.
(Retinger’s papers are in the Polish Library, London: BP-POSK, Rkps 1280.) 1280/Szu 3, nr37, p. 2

76
.
1280/Szu 1, passim.

77
.
Polyneuritis: correspondence with Prof. Orzechowska-Juzwenko of Wrocław.

78
.
J. Garli
ski,
Hitler’s Last Weapons
, op. cit., pp. 162–4.

79
.
Ibid., note p. 165.

80
.
Author’s interview with Lady Pamela Niven, formerly Pamela Leach, later Dyboska, 14 November 2002.

81
.
Precious little is known of Retinger’s meeting with Premier Mikołajczyk. Whatever the former said about his stay in Poland, he would not have wished to deflect the Premier from his trip to Moscow.

82
.
Ciechanowski, op. cit., pp. 190ff.

83
.
GARF, f9401, d2, op65, pp. 378–82. Beria to Stalin, 16 July 1944. Published in Polish translation in
NKWD i Polskie Podziemie, 1944–45
(Kraków, 1998), nr. 1, pp. 37–41.

84
.
Ibid., passim.

85
.
‘Wilk’, meaning ‘wolf’, was the pseudonym of Col. A. Krzy
anowski, and he had
not
been flown either from London or Warsaw. The NKVD probably confused him with his deputy chief of staff, Maj. Teodor Cetys, ‘Viking’, who was a
cichociemni
and had been flown in by SOE on 8/9 April 1942.

86
.
Raczy
ski: summary of meeting with Eden, 27 July 1944, sent to Foreign Minister Romer. HIA ‘Poland – Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych, 1944’ various boxes, also to be found in GSHI – talks – MSZ, collection 33, quoted by Ciechanowski, op. cit., p. 67.

87
.
Ibid., passim.

88
.
Ibid., passim.

89
.
O. G. Sargent to Ambassador Raczy
ski, 28 July 1944,
AKD
IV, nr. 725, p. 18.

90
.
T. Bór-Komorowski,
Armia podziemna
(London, 1967), quoted by Bartoszewski,
DWS
, pp. 11–12.

91
.
Ibid., passim.

92
.
Jean-Paul Cointet, ‘Paris: un enjeu de libération’,
Paris, 40–44
(Paris, 2001), pp. 253–315.

93
.
Christine Levisse Touzé,
Paris libéré , Paris retrouvé
(Paris, 1944), p. 86.

94
.
Korbo
ski, op. cit., p. 179.

95
.
Witold Sagajłło,
Man in the Middle: a Story of the Polish Resistance, 1940–45
(London, 1984), pp 131–2, 136–40. (See Capsule NKVD.)

96
.
F. Majorkiewicz,
Lata chmurne
(Warsaw, 1983), p. 209, quoted in
RW
, p. 4.

97
.
Kaz. Kumaniecki, quoted by Bartoszewski,
DWS
, passim.

98
.
Julian Biodrowski. Jan Szatsznajder, op. cit., pp. 12–14.

Chapter V: The Warsaw Rising

pp. 243–430


Outbreak:
1.
DWS
, pp. 13–14.

2
.
On Jacek
witalski: Adam Czerniawski,
Scenes from a disturbed childhood
(London, 1991), p. 96.

3
.
Krystyna Krahelska, ‘Danuta’ (1914–44), see
Sbkw
, vol. II, pp. 96–7.

4
.
DWS
, p. 19.

5
.
Ministerstwo Spraw Wewn
trznych, Wydział Społeczny,
Przegł
d Prasy Krajowej w okresie Powstania Warszawskiego
(London, 1945), nr2/45. ‘Odezwa’, p. 1.

6
.
Stefan Kisielewski,
DWS
, pp. 14–15.

7
.
DWS
, p. 17.

8
.
Himmler’s speech at Jägerhöhe, 21 September 1944, quoted by Tadeusz Sawicki,
Rozkaz: zdławi
powstanie
(Warsaw, 2001), p. 25. The
Reichsführer-SS
was recalling his conversation with Hitler seven weeks earlier.

9
.
Ibid.

10
.
Wolfgang Benz (ed.), ‘Generalplan-Ost’, in
Die Vertreibung der Deutschen aus dem Osten
(Frankfurt/Main, 1995), p. 54.

11
.
DWS
, p. 37.

12
.
George Weigel,
Witness to Hope; the Biography of Pope John Paul II
(New York, 1999), pp. 71–2.

13
.
Protokół posiedzenie Rady Ministrów, 2/8/44. APISM, PRM K102/739.

14
.
The Times
, 3 August 1944.

15
.
AKD
, IV, nr. 754.

16
.
AKD
, IV, p. 33.

17
.
AKD
, IV, nr. 780.

18
.
Joanna Hanson, ‘Prasa Brytyjska a Powstanie Warszawskie’ in Z. Mankowski and J.
wi
ch,
Powstanie Warszawskie w historiografii i literaturze, 1944–94
(Lublin, 1996), pp. 97–8.

19
.
M. Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill
(London, 1986), vol. VII,
1941–45
, pp. 871–2. This speech was made one day before Churchill was officially informed of the outbreak of the Rising by the Polish President. See note 13 above. He clearly learned of the outbreak from another source, possibly SOE or Count Raczy
ski, but more probably, given the Muscovite tone of the sentiments, from the Foreign Office and hence from the British Embassy in Moscow. This last possibility begs the question of how and when Moscow received news of the outbreak.

20
.
The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, 1938–45
, ed. D. Dilks (London, 1971), p. 653.

21
.
RW
, p. 31. (English text in
Stalin’s Corrrespondence with Churchill, Attlee, Roosevelt and Truman, 1941–45
(London, 1958), doc. 311, p. 248.)

22
.
DWS
, p. 37.
RW
, p. 38 (English text in
Stalin’s Correspondence
, op. cit., doc. 313, p. 249).

23
.
Leon Mitkiewicz,
W najwy
szym sztabie zachodnich aliantó w
(London, 1971), p. 195.

24
.
AKD
, IV, p. 72.

25
.
Kunert,
RW
, p. 23.

26
.
RW
, p. 23. Text, T.
enczykowski,
Samotny bój Warszawy
(Paris, 1985), p. 58.

27
.
RW
, p. 31.

28
.
T. Cariewskaya et al.,
Teczka Specjalna J. W. Stalina: Raporty NKWD z Polski, 1944–46
(Warsaw, 1998), nr. 7.

29
.
Jan Karski, T. Cariewskaya et al.,
The Great Powers and Poland, 1919–45
(Lanham, MD, 1985), p. 537.

30
.
RW
, p. 23: A. Przygo
ski,
Stalin
(Warsaw, 1994), p. 101.

31
.
Col. Turner, 5 August 1944: Gen. Antonov to Comrade Stalin, 6 August 1944. O

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