Status Updates From Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmle...

The most famous victim was Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, the young bard of the ‘Columbus Generation’ who wrote so passionately against the horrors of war. On 4 August he was standing at a window of the Blank Palace when he was shot in the head by a sniper; his pregnant wife was killed on 1 September when a shard of glass pierced her brain. Baczyński believed that the only human force strong enough to defeat war was love

وقتی شب یلدا خسته‌ای و حوصله‌ی مهمونی رفتن نداری و میشینی از قتل‌عام لهستانی‌ها در ورشو به دست نازی‌ها میخونی.

“But 5 August was to be the high point for the AK. It had 16,000 people under its command, outnumbered the German garrison three to one, and controlled over 125 square kilometres of territory. The euphoria was not to last. The Germans, who had been surprised by the scale of the Polish attacks, had been slow to respond, but they were beginning to get organized. Warsaw was going to be made to pay for its insolence.”