The Warsaw Uprising began on August 1,1944 when the Polish Home Army, consisting of about 40,000 resistors, began shooting at German troops in the streets during World War II. The Polish resistance fighters were hoping to be relieved by the Soviet Union’s Red Army, but the Soviet troops stopped short on the eastern edge of the city. The Warsaw Uprising was the largest single military effort lead by European resistance forces during the war, but the Poles were defeated after 63 days.
