Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw (164 page)

Saksin, Grigori
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Sanacja
regime (‘Government of Political Healing’)
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Sargent, Sir Orme
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Sat-Okh (‘Cossak’)
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Schindler, Dr
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Schmidt, Gen.
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Schultz, Otto
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Scotsman
(newspaper)
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Scout movement (‘Grey Ranks’, ‘Szare Szeregi’)
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,
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SD
see
Democratic Movement

Sealion, Operation (proposed German invasion of Britain)
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Second World War: as just war
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Security Corps (KB)
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Selborne, Roundell Cecil Palmer, 3rd Earl of
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‘Selim’
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Selivanovsky, Lt.Gen. N.
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Sergeev, Gen.
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Serov, Gen. Ivan
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Sewer
(
Kanał
; film)
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Shaw, George Bernard
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Shcherbakov, Col.Gen. A.S.
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Sherwood, Robert
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Shtemenko, Gen. Sergei
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Sicily
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Sieradz
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Sikorski, Gen. Władysław: death
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,
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; heads government in exile
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; relations with Churchill
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,
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,
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; visits Stalin
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,
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; visits USA
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,
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; hopes for Jewish emigration to Palestine
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; killed
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,
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; visit to USA
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; and Joseph Retinger
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; prestige
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; proposes General Rising
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; Katy
Forest massacre and
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; personal qualities
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Silesia
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Sinclair, Archibald
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‘Sixteen, the’ (Polish Underground leaders): capture and trial
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Skamander Group
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Slavs: Nazi attitude to
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Slessor, Air Marshal Sir John Cotesworth
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,
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Słonimski, Antoni
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Slonimskii, Mikhail Leonidovitch
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Slovakia
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Smollett, Peter
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Smuts, Field Marshal Jan Christian
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Smyersh
organization
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Sobibór (German death camp)
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Socialist Party (PPS)
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Solidarity Movement: founded
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,
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; activities
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; suppressed
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; inspired by Rising
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Solly-Flood, Maj. Peter
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Sosnkowski, Kazimierz: appointed Commanderin-Chief
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,
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; and proposed General Rising
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,
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; attitude to USSR
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; visits troops in Italy
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,
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; orders to Warsaw commanders
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; requests British help for Rising
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; blamed for Rising
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,
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; indictment of Allied complacency
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; differences with Premier
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; fears for Home Army
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; maintains contact with Bór in Warsaw
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; advice on dealing with USSR
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; dismissed
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; settles in Montreal
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South African Air Force (SAAF)
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Southby, Commander Sir Archibald
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Soviet News
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Soviet Union
see
USSR

Soviet–Polish Non-Aggression Pact (1932)
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SP
see
Christian Democrat Labour Party

Spa Line
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Spaak, Paul-Henri
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Spain
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Special Operations Executive (SOE): and European Underground activities
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; Foreign Office differences with
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,
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; rivalry with intelligence service
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; and ‘Tabor’
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; Polish Section
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; removes captured V2 rocket
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; flight to Warsaw on eve of Rising
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; assurances of aid for Rising countermanded by Foreign Office
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; near-abandonment of Poland
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; ‘element of fantasy’
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;
see also
Freston Mission

Spectator
(journal)
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Spilker,
SS-Hstuf.
Alfred
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Stahel, Gen. Reiner
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Stalin, Josef V.: and post-war recovery
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; and victories over Germany
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,
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; age and world view
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; and German invasion of USSR
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,
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; and alliance with Western powers
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; Polish policy
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; de Gaulle visits
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; first meets Roosevelt and Churchill
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; breaks off relations with Poland
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; territorial demands
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,
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; and prospective Polish rising
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; seen as threat to Poland
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; invades Poland (1939)
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; accused of Katy
Forest massacre
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,
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; and Bolshevik ideology
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; and Soviet attack on Poland (1920)
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,
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; purges
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,
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,
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,
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; agreements with Germany
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; personal dictatorship
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,
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; recognizes Polish Exiled Government
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; informed of Polish Underground
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,
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; and post-war settlement in Central and Eastern Europe
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; Western sympathizers
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; Berling’s deference to
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; Mikołajczyk visits
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; hostility to Polish Home Army
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; Churchill telegraphs on support for Warsaw
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; negotiates with Western powers on future of Poland
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; unwillingness to support Rising
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,
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; demands on Poland
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; opposes Allied landing rights in USSR
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; withholds Soviet Army from intervention in Rising
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; attitude to Rising
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; Western leaders seek cooperation from
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; absence from Quebec meeting
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; and Churchill’s meeting with Anders
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; National Council appeals to
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; Churchill meets in Moscow
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; prevaricates with US and British Ambassadors
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; information on Rising passed to
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; final appeal from Mikołajczyk
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; and occupation of Eastern Europe
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; Kremlin military conference
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; intransigence over Polish frontier
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; and plans to attack Berlin
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; at Yalta Conference
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; gains from Rising
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; receives reports from NKVD
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; favours Bolesław Bierut
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; death
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; Bolesław Bierut and Jakub Berman meet
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; Khrushchev condemns
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; and ‘Zionist Conspiracy’
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; suspiciousness
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; hostility to West
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; Western deference to
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; Roosevelt’s relations with
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; benign image
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;
see also
USSR

Stalingrad: Battle of (1943)
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,
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; position and status
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Stalinism
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Stamm, Walter
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START (trial)
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