The Warsaw Uprising at 75: Why ‘Almost Forgotten’?

Soldiers of the Polish Home Army ride a captured German Panther tank on Aug. 2 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising. Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski/Public Domain

Commentary

Writing about the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising on July 31 in The Wall Street Journal, Bard College history professor Sean McMeekin makes the point that the “heroic yet doomed” battle against Nazi occupation is “almost forgotten in the West.”