Warsaw Uprising
Part of Operation Tempest, World War II
Polish Home Army positions, outlined in red, on day 4 (4 August 1944)
Date 1 August – 2 October 1944 (2 months and 1 day) Location Warsaw, Poland 52°13′48″N 21°00′39″E / 52.23000°N 21.01083°E / 52.23000; 21.01083Coordinates: 52°13′48″N 21°00′39″E / 52.23000°N 21.01083°E / 52.23000; 21.01083 Result German victory Planned destruction of Warsaw
Belligerents
Polish resistance Royal Air Force including Polish squadrons (4 August – 21 September) Polish First Army (from 14 September) Soviet Air Force (from 14 September) South African Air Force USAAF (18 September only)	Nazi Germany (and auxiliaries from German-controlled Lithuania and German-controlled Ukraine
Commanders and leaders
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski # Tadeusz Pełczyński  # Antoni Chruściel # Karol Ziemski  # Edward Pfeiffer  # Leopold Okulicki Jan Mazurkiewicz Konstantin Rokossovsky Zygmunt Berling	Walter Model Nikolaus von Vormann Rainer Stahel Erich von dem Bach Heinz Reinefarth Bronislav Kaminski Petro Dyachenko
Strength
Range 20,000 to 49,000 (initially)	Range 13,000 to 25,000 (initially)
Casualties and losses
Polish insurgents: 10,000 KIA 5,200–6,000 MIA 5,000 WIA 15,000 POW Berling 1st Army: 5,660 casualties 150,000–200,000 civilians killed, 700,000 expelled from the city.	German forces: 7,000–9,000 KIA 7,000 MIA 9,000 WIA 2,000 POW 310 tanks and armoured vehicles, 340 trucks and cars, 22 artillery pieces and one aircraft

In 1944, the Polish resistance Home Army rebelled against Nazi occupation of Warsaw. This rebellion is known as the Warsaw Uprising. The resistance Home Army wanted to free Warsaw from Nazi Germany. The resistance army fought against German troops for 63 days. After that, there was no chance of winning, so they surrendered. German troops killed many civilians in the city. After the uprising, the city of Warsaw was destroyed almost completely. At the time of the uprising, the Red Army was stationed on the other side of the river Vistula, which runs through the city of Warsaw.

The Uprising was the largest attack done by any European resistance movement of World War II. The Slovak National Uprising, which happened from 29 August to 28 October 1944, is comparable.