After the country's occupation in 1939, the people of Poland were brutally oppressed by the Nazi SS and Geheime Staatspolizei. Yet, they never gave up the fight. Throughout the Second World War, a Polish Underground State was established - the largest underground resistance movement in all of occupied Europe, covering both German and Soviet zones of occupation. In the last episode of this series, Professor Alexandra Richie travels to Warsaw to shed light on the numerous, heroic acts of resistance within the nation's capital and how they consistently hindered the Nazi war effort.
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Suppression: The Battle For Poland's ...
In 1945, as the Red Army arrived at the edge of Warsaw, it was confronted by a sea of destruction, rubble, ash and misery. Arriving as "liberators", the shadow of the Soviet Union would soon loom large over a population brutalised by five long years of Nazi occupation - a population that had los...
