WARSAW 1944
Hitler, Himmler and the Crushing of a City
Alexandra Richie
William Collins
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
77–85 Fulham Palace Road,
Hammersmith, London W6 8JB
First published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2013
Copyright © Alexandra Richie 2013
Maps by John Gilkes
Cover photograph © AFP/Getty Images
Alexandra Richie asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.
Source ISBN: 9780007180417
Ebook Edition © October 2013 ISBN: 9780007523412
Version: 2014-07-23
For Antonia and Caroline
Contents
2. To the Very Gates of Warsaw
10. Hitler’s War Against the Old Town
11. The Allies, Hitler and the Battle for Czerniaków
Author’s Note and Acknowledgements
From the reviews of Warsaw 1944
1. Hitler in Warsaw, 5 October 1939. (Topfoto)
2. Soviet troops advance on Warsaw in the summer of 1944. (AKG)
3. ‘Agaton’ leads his troops to battle on 1 August 1944. (Zygmunt Walkowski)
4. A Warsawian attempts to cross a street to safety on the first day of the uprising. (Zygmunt Walkowski)
5. Barricade at Marszaticorska and Zlota streets. (Zygmunt Walkowski)
6. German troops in Wola. (Zygmunt Walkowski)
7. Heinz Reinefarth, who ordered the first wave of massacres in Wola. (Zygmunt Walkowski)
8. An Azeri unit sharing sausages with their German colleagues. (Zygmunt Walkowski)
9. Men, women and children killed on 5 August 1944.
10. Wanda Lurie