Operation Tempest or Operation Burza was a series of uprisings conducted during World War II against occupying German forces by the Polish Home Army, the dominant force in the Polish resistance.
Polish soldiers during the Warsaw Uprising.
Captain "Mruk" of the Radom–Kielce area Home Army, with a Soviet reconnaissance patrol
Polish Home Army's 7th Infantry Division, from the Radom–Kielce area, during Operation Tempest
Polish Home Army's 26th Infantry Regiment en route from the Kielce–Radom area to Warsaw in an attempt to join the Warsaw Uprising
The Home Army was the dominant resistance movement in German-occupied Poland during World War II. The Home Army was formed in February 1942 from the earlier Związek Walki Zbrojnej established in the a
Operation Tempest
…referred to in English as "Operation Storm") was a series of uprisings conducted during World War II against occupying German forces by the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa, abbreviated AK), the dominant force in the Polish resistance. Operation Tempest's objective was to seize control of German-occupied…
Young Radosław Group soldiers, 2 September 1944, a month into the Warsaw Uprising. They had just marched several hours through Warsaw sewers.
Der Klabautermann (an Operation N magazine), 3 January 1943 issue, satirizing Nazi terror and genocide. From the right, emerging from the "III" (Roman numeral three", of the "Third Reich"): Himmler, Hitler, and Death.
"To arms!" Home Army poster during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising
German poster listing 100 Polish hostages executed in reprisal for assassinations of German police and SS by a Polish "terrorist organization in the service of the English", Warsaw, 2 October 1943