Massive demonstration in central Warsaw commemorates historic uprising
Central Warsaw came to a standstill on Tuesday (August 1) to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the 1944 Warsaw uprising.
Drivers stopped their cars and citizens stood still, with some letting off flares, as sirens rang around the city at 1700 (1500GMT), to mark the “W“ hour, the time when on August 1, 1944, Polish resistance fighters attempted to overthrow the Nazi occupiers.
On August 1, 1944 thousands of poorly-armed Warsaw residents rose up against the German Nazi forces to take control of the city ahead of the advancing Soviet army.
The Warsaw Uprising collapsed after 63 days, leaving the city in ruins and historians divided about whether the insurgency should have been launched in the first place.
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