Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw (162 page)

Piłsudski, Marshal Józef
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Pi
sk
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PKB
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State Security Corps

PKWN
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Polish Committee of National Liberation

Plaschau (Płaszów) concentration camp
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Plater, Emilia
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Poland: in Alliance
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; divisions and differences in Exiled Government
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; tradition of independence
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; Western view of
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; Germans invade (1939)
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; USSR attacks
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; USSR occupies east (1939)
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; defeated, occupied, and divided (1939)
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; Soviet deportations from
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; Exiled Government formed
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; troops join Western Allies
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; air force contribution to RAF
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; Stalin’s 1941 treaty with
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; territorial and border issues
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; army in USSR moves to Palestine
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; and unconditional surrender policy
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; and Soviet advance (1943–4)
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; US attitude to
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; Stalin breaks off relations with
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; British attitudes to and understanding of
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; Stalin’s demands on
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; prospective rising and ‘Secret Army’
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; nationalism in
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; under Imperial German occupation
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; German atrocities in
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; concentration camps in
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; educational and cultural institutions closed by Nazis
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; Nazi repression in
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; German racial policy in
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; Soviet repression in
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; Nazi resettlement plan
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; collaboration in
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; Germanization programme
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; anti-Semitism in
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; repels Soviet attack (1920)
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; ethnic/religious composition
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; language
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; Non-Aggression Pact with USSR (1932)
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; Soviet policy on independence of
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; Soviet attempts to extinguish
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; Soviet puppet government in
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; tradition of fighting for freedom and resistance
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; NKVD activities in
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; Constitution (1921)
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; political parties and groupings
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; flights from Britain
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; proposed General Rising
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; splits and recriminations over Rising
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; Mikołajczyk’s plan for reconciliation with USSR
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; proposed benefit from post-war German assets
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; Soviet Provisional Government for
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; Stalin’s intentions for
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; post-war settlement negotiations
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; Exiled Government reconstituted under Arciszewski
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; Provisional Government installed
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; and Soviet offensive against Berlin
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; Government of National Unity
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; Provisional Government signs Pact of Friendship with USSR
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; Exiled Government loses in Yalta settlement
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; Provisional Government favoured by British Foreign Office
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; refugees return to
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; post-war Stalinist regime (‘One-Party State’)
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; ‘civil war’ (1944–47)
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; ‘Thaw’ (1955-)
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; official history planned
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; emigrants and exiles from
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; post-war repression and show trials in
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; Ministry of Internal Affairs (MSW)
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; Ministry of Public Security (MBP)
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; Chief Bureau of Information
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; Ministry of National Defence
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; Catholic Church in
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; Constitution of People’s Republic (1952)
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; Ministry of the Interior
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; Communist regime in
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; funereal culture
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; state censorship
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; martial law declared (1981)
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; Third Republic formed on People’s Republic collapse (1990)
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; Exiled Government fails to coordinate with Allies
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; in Soviet sphere of influence
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Military formations: First Army
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; 2nd Corps
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; 1st Armoured Division
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; 5th (Border) Division
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; 1st Independent Parachute Brigade
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; Carpathian Brigade
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see also
Government-in-Exile (Polish); Underground (Polish)

Poland during the First Half of 1945
(booklet)
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Poland’s Voice
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Pola
ski, Roman
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Polish Catholic Mission
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Polish Committee of National Liberation (PKWN)
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Polish Commonwealth
(journal)
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Polish National Committee (PNC)
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Polish Parachute Brigade
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Polish People’s Army (LWP)
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Polish People’s Army (PAL)
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Polish Resettlement Corps
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Polish Self-Help Foundation
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Polish Socialist Militia (PPS)
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Polish Syndicalist Union (ZSP)
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Polish University College, University of London
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Polish Workers’ Party (PPR)
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Polnische Haupthilfsausschuss
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Pomian, Andrzej
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Warsaw Rising
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‘POPs’
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Pospieszalski, Antoni (Capt. Currie)
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PPR
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Polish Workers’ Party

PPS
see
Polish Socialist Militia; Socialist Party

Praga
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Prague
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Priestley, J. B.
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Pripet Marshes (Polesie)
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prisoners of war (Polish): treatment
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Provisional Line (Poland/USSR)
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PSL
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Peasant Party

Public Security Corps (PKB)
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Quebec meeting (Octagon Conference, September 1944)
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Raczkiewicz, Władysław (President): informs Churchill of Rising
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; dismisses Commanderin-Chief
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Raczy
ski, Count Edward (Polish Ambassador to Britain)
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Radek, Karol
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