THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 776, sig. 110-5/66

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3 in the face of the gent world in our people 07. Warsaw should be the main point of this struggle. Voz ier Führung was only dependent on the choice of the date for taking up the open struggle and its spread. The Soviet offensive, which advanced rapidly from the East against Warsaw, was a decisive monet, apart from whether Warsaw would fall into the hands of the Soviets or not. If the Bolsheviks had stopped their advance in the face of the burning battles in Warsaw or if they had been caught up in the run-up by the Germans, the local uprising in Warsaw had fulfilled its task as - a manifestation of the whole people represented by the capital, which should prove that the Polish people will never agree with the loss of its independence. The fact that the fight against an opponent who strives for the destruction and oppression of Polish life will, on every occasion, be without consideration for the losses in the sense of the motto that it is wiser and more histrianly correct to fall with the weapon in hand. As if in the worst slavery, at most as a second-class citizen, in the withdrawal of all human rights and without any possibility of informal development. If, on the other hand, it was not easier for the Germans to stop the Bolsheviks before Varschau and had taken advantage of the force of their advance Warsaw, then, apart from the objectives mentioned above, the uprising had contributed to the fact that the Bolshevists had ruled Warsaw by the Polish army and had met with functioning Polish authorities, and here in the capital of Poland the attitude and position of Soviets on the Polish problem had to be finally decided. These were the main and principal causes for the start of the struggle in Warsaw on the 1st of August 1944. In order to fulfil this task, the local uprising in Warsaw was sufficient, since it is self-evident that the capital has the right to represent the Polish country as a whole. The soldiers who marched into this battle knew very well that they did not escape a certain death.