75: Uprising Numbers

Warsaw Uprising

Lasted: August 1, 1944 – October 2,  1944    (63 days)

(White-and-red Polish flag with superposed anchor emblem of the Polish resistance)

Result:

    1.)    German victory 

    2.)    Capitulation agreement of AK units

    3.)    Territorial  changes

    4.)    Destruction of Warsaw

Belligerents:

   A.)     Polish Underground State (Polskie Państwo Podziemne)

 Polish First Army   (from 14 September) (Pierwsza Armia Wojska Polskiego)

Supported by: 

-         United Kingdom     (August  4th–  September 21st)   

-           United States      

-           South Africa    

-          Soviet Union   (from September 13th)

       B.)    Germany

Number of Fighters:

     A.)    Polish Resistance:  20,000–49,000;  2,500 equipped with guns (initially)

     B.)    Germans: 13,000–25,000 (initially) up to 50,000 by October 1944

Casualties and Losses:

     A.)    Polish Resistance: 

15,200 Killed in Action

5,000 Wounded in Action

15,000 Prisoners of War

Polish First Army: 5,660 casualties

Warsaw Airlift: 41 destroyed aircraft (360 aircrew killed)

      B.)    German Forces: 

7,000–9,000 Killed in Action

7,000 Missing In Action

9,000 Wounded in Action

2,000 Prisoners of War (1,000 returned after the Uprising)

    C.)    Polish Civilians Not Involved In Uprising

50,000–200,000 Civilians Killed

700,000 Expelled from Warsaw by the Germans

(of the 700,000 expelled: 55,000 Civilians were sent to Concentration Camps, including 13,000 to the Auschwitz Death Camp)

Material Losses In Warsaw:
  1.)    10,455 Buildings
  2.)    923 Historical Buildings (94 percent)
  3.)    25 Churches
  4.)    14 Libraries including the National Library
  5.)    81 Elementary Schools
  6.)    64 High Schools
  7.)    Warsaw University and Polytechnic buildings
   8.)    Most of the city’s Monuments

During World War 2, 85% of Warsaw's left bank buildings were destroyed: 25% in the course of the Warsaw Uprising, 35% as the result of systematic German actions after the Uprising, the rest as a combination of the war in September 1939 and the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Uprising
http://www.worldwar2facts.org/warsaw-uprising.html