Warsaw Uprising - Photograph Gallery

Photograph Gallery

  • German guards next to a guardhouse and a bunker at the Puławska Street gate to the base of air defence units (Flakkaserne) located at the old Polish base between Puławska and Rakowiecka Streets.) July 1944

  • German guards next to a guardhouse and a bunker at the Puławska Street gate to the base of air defence units (Flakkaserne) located at the old Polish base between Puławska and Rakowiecka Streets.) July 1944

  • Aleje Szucha street with German bunker on the right side of the street viewed from Unii Lubelskiej Square. Behind the barriers lies German district sometimes called “German Ghetto”. July 1944

  • Aleje Szucha street with German bunker on the right side of the street viewed from Unii Lubelskiej Square. Behind the barriers lies German district sometimes called “German Ghetto”. July 1944

  • Guardhouse and a bunker at the gate to the Stauferkaserne base at Rakowiecka 4 Street housing an SS battalion. View from Rakowiecka street corner with Kazimierzowska street. July 1944

  • Month before Warsaw Uprising: Guardhouse and a bunker in front of City Headquarters building at 4 Piłsudski Square in the back townhouses along of Krakowskie Przedmieście street, from the left: 40 (fragment), 38 and 36 (ruins). July 1944

  • Bunker and gate of Abschnittwache Nord (so called Nordwache) building at Żelazna 75a street behind barbed wire obstacles “Cheval de fries” July 1944

  • German bunker on Kierbiedź Bridge.July 1944

  • German bunker in front of National Museum in Aleje Jerozolimskie. July 1944

  • Bunker in front of gate to University of Warsaw converted to a base for Wehrmacht viewed from Krakowskie Przedmieście Street. July 1944

  • Insurgents from "Chrobry I" Battalion in front of German police station “Nordwache” at the junction of Chłodna and Żelazna Streets. 3 August 1944

  • Insurgents from Ruczaj Battalion after fight for Mała PASTa building take pictures at the main entrance at Piusa 19 Street next to a bunker. 24 August 1944

  • Members of the SS-Sonderregiment Dirlewanger in Warsaw in window of townhouse at Focha 9 Street. In the glass reflection one can see details of the townhouse on the opposite side of the street at Focha 8 Street August 1944

  • SS-Gruppenführer Heinz Reinefarth "Butcher of Wola" (left, in Cossack headgear) and the Regiment III of Cossacks of Jakub Bondarenko during Warsaw Uprising around Wolska street. Third Regiment of Cossacks contained a mix of Cossacks from many regions, and Jakub Bondarenko was commanding 5th Regiment of Kuban Cossack Infantry

  • One of the German POW's from PAST-a building at Zielna 37 street, was SS-Sturmscharführer, who supposedly was terrorizing other defenders 20 August 1944

  • German soldier killed by insurgents during attack on Mała PASTa. 23 August 1944

  • Germans fire rocket shells against Polish positions.

  • Azeri SS volunteer formation during the Warsaw Uprising.

  • Polish victims of the Wola massacre burned by members of so-called Verbrennungskommando.

  • People of Wola district leaving the city after the failed Uprising.

  • Barricade erected such on Napoleon Square. In background: captured Hetzer tank destroyer. 3 August 1944

  • Prudential Building in 1945

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