During WWII, there were many rebellions against Nazi rule in Eastern Europe.
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Between 1941 and 1943, underground resistance movements developed in approximately 100 ghettos in Nazi-occupied eastern Europe (about one-fourth of all ghettos), especially in Poland, Lithuania, Belorussia, and the Ukraine. Their main goals were to organize uprisings, break out of the ghettos, and join partisan units in the fight against the Germans.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=...duleId=10005407In Warsaw, Poland there was the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, April 19, 1943 through May 16, 1943.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=...duleId=10005188and
The Warsaw Uprising - August 1, 1944 to October 2, 1944.
Pertaining to the second uprising (1944), this link was provided on another thread about Roosevelt and Stalin.
http://www.warsawuprising.com/doc/Roosevel...hill_Stalin.htmThis link contains “selected documents.”
Documents selected include August 18 an 24 but omit August 20.
On August 20, Roosevelt and Churchill made a joint appeal to Stalin:
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Nevertheless, on August 20, they made a joint appeal.
We are thinking of world opinion if anti-Nazis in Warsaw are, in effect, abandoned," Churchill said to Stalin. "We hope that you will drop immediate supplies and ammunitions to the patriot Poles of Warsaw, or will you agree to help our planes in doing it very quickly? The time element is of extreme importance.
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/.../warsaw/c1.htmlOn August 22, Stalin refused to take part and refused Soviet airfields to his allies.
On AUGUST 25, Churchill tried to get Roosevelt to join him in a harsher communiqué to Stalin. According to
James MacGregor Burns,
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1970:
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Roosevelt would not go along on this. Distressed though he was by Stalin’s attitude toward the Warsaw tragedy, he feared that pressure on Moscow would jeopardize more long-range military cooperation with Russia, especially in the Far East. In mid-September, Stalin finally relented and allowed bombers to drop some supplies. But it was too late; resistance was near an end. Page 535.
Questions for debate
1. Why do you think the joint Roosevelt/Churchill memo of August 20, 1944 was omitted from the link of "selected" documents linked in the original thread?
2. Do you think Roosevelt’s decision not to pressure Stalin a second time, was a wise one that looked more to concluding the war in the Pacific than immediate gains?
3. Do you think this episode is a major story in the relationship between Roosevelt and Stalin?