The Unknown War: The Liberation of Poland


The Unknown War is an American 20-part series that documents the World War II conflict between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

Today, SouthFront shares the 16th part of the series titled “The Liberation of Poland”. As the Nazis were collapsing in Belarus, the Red Army began its advance in Poland late in July of 1944.

The city of Lublin and one of the largest Nazi concentration camps, Majdanek, were liberated within a few days. 1.5 million people of 50 nationalities passed through Majdanek, where at least 78,000 were reportedly killed.

In December, the Polish Committee for National Liberation declared itself the Provisional Government of Poland, voicing its support for Soviet efforts to liberate the country.

The Red Army launched the Vistula–Oder offensive in January of 1945. This strategic move pushed Soviet troops within 50 miles of the German capital, setting the stage for the Battle of Berlin. During the offensive, the Soviets were able to liberate key cities like Kraków, Warsaw, and Poznań within a few weeks. The Nazi occupation of Poland was very much over.


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jaredX

it is very interesting. can anyone explain what happened at katyn and why?

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xergoos

russian communists decide they will wipe all polish elites shooting them at back of the head. they wipe killed thousands of them in liberating way. they liberated poland with hitler attacking behind when poland was defending itself from germany. then when they were liberating poland they raped all possible woman from 8 years old to 80+ years old .

Krzysztof

w katyniu strzelali żydowscy komuniści, rosjanie by tak nie postąpili. rosjanie są honorowi i wyzwolili całą polskę od nazistów!

kakerlacken

ruscy honorowi xd – weź już nie pierdol – każdy ruski jak i ukrainiec czyli też kacap to kłamca i to, że swoją hagadę innym wmawiają to nie znaczy, że jest to prawda – nikt nas nie wyzwolił jako polaków a ich okupacja była kolejną, teraz mamy żydowską – podobnie jak ukraina.

Klym Sawur

you must know that ukraine was created by the city of london. the purpose of the creation was to murder slavs, mainly poles and russians, by ukrainian savages. they started with poles, under the protection of german formations they murdered over half a million polish peasants, over 1000 villages disappeared from the map

Clyde

i’m not sure what exactly happened at katyn and when it happened, but if the soviets did do it, how does it compare with the elimination of political threats in south vietnam during the phoenix program? how about the us-run dirty wars of operation condor? french conduct in algeria, or vietnam for that matter? singhman rhee ever kill any political opponents? how about us puppet suharto? are you sure it was russian communists? no kazhaks? georgians? maybe a ukrainian or two?

Klym Sawur

the order to shoot polish and russian officers was issued in the city of london

Clyde

some polish officers got shot and buried. because somebody wanted them dead.

Klym Sawur

in 1940, the jewish nkvd shot 13,000 russian officers and 4,500 polish officers. in this way, the jewish communists prepared the ground for their fellow countrymen from germany to attack the soviet union, which took place less than a year later. in 1992,

Klym Sawur

…..president yeltsin gave poland documents on the crime in katyn, but the documents were immediately lost because the executioners were jews. the polish officers were killed so that in june 1941, during the german attack on the ussr, they could not replace russian commanders in commanding military units.

Veritas

was it a liberation, or was it a replacement of enslavement by german nazis wirh enslavement by soviet communists? you guys need to choose your words less hypocritically.

Clyde

the former. it’s pretty straight forward.

Boss

following the occupying nazis came the occupying communists and likewise butchers who plunged poland into another massacre

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Krzysztof

a teraz mamy eurokołchoz

xergoos

so you activly removing comments hahaha poor propaganda site.

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the narrative

when russia found the concentration camps , they were shocked . all german supply lines were cut

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Clyde

wtf is that supposed to mean?

Joris III

i think that the gentleman means that all deliveries stopped: glasses, false teeth, gold teeth, hair, lamp skin, soap and coarse calcium. you know everything they produced in the camps.

Clyde

they produced “lamp skin” and soap? i can only imagine the demand in nazi germany for jewish hair and false teeth. the herrenvolk must have been crawling all over one another to get at that stuff. cabbage patch kids of the era.

Klym Sawur

i see you swallow jewish propaganda like a pelican. there was no soap made of people

Clyde

i always thought ig farben produced stuff like buna rubber and synethic fuel in the camps, using vast amounts of slave labour.

Klym Sawur

you are right, auschwitz was the largest chemical plant complex in the world. all of the factories were owned by american jews. one of these factories was owned by prescott bush, the father and grandfather of two us presidents. prescott bush was adolf hitler’s main banker

Krzysztof

dziękujemy za wyzwolenie polski z rąk nazistów!, zginęło wielu szlachetnych rosjan braci słowianu nas w bielsku białej oddało życie tysiące rosjan za wolność polski i śląska. spasiba druzja !

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kakerlacken

dziękują chyba potomkowie ub pajacu.

GIANKOS KONST.

σοβαρευθειτε ! ουδεποτε απελευθερωθηκε η πολωνια !! 1/3 κατεληφθη απο τουσ γερμανουσ το 1939 και 2/3 απο τουσ σοβιετικουσ κομουνιστεσ !!! με την ηττα τησ ναζιστικησ γερμανιας οι σοβιετικοι κομουνιστεσ επεβαλαν δικταορια σε ολη την πολωνια εωσ το 1989-90 !!!

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japie

it is heart broken to see that russians liberate poland,belarus from nazi germany and safe napoleon also.but today britain,france and germany wants to rewrite history just encircle russia through ukraine war.

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japie

not only russians but vietnamese,north koreans help united soviets to rescue fellow poland,belarus,france and german enslaved brothers from nazis as well as its selfs.now the great wants disunity for encirclement of russia.most recently we africans and europeans stand united and force us,france and britain to withdraw from germany for the fall of berlin wall.was this a mistake no just freedom.

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japie

very simple if trump,macron,starmer and merc stop financing and weaponizing ukraine.then zelenski will be left with no option but to surrender and neutralize ukraine.then elect president of their choice.

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Ramschell

actually between the 6 millions were 4.5 million of jews.

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Peter

zydow w calej europe bylo 6 milionow. nie opowiadaj bajek. żydowska propaganda i wieczne kłamstwa

Klym Sawur

you are wrong. adolf hitler and the entire nsdap leadership were jewish communists. if so many jews died, there would be no one to live in israel.

Ramschell

przybyli ulani pod okienko

Potemkin Village

rooskies have never liberated anything, just enslaved people.

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kakerlacken

that’s totally true, but this propaganda website likes to write its own version of history that exists only in russia.

Clyde

russians didn’t write this documentary, which existed outside russia. thanks for derping.

Klym Sawur

during the liberation of poland, 600,000 soviet soldiers died. their graves are currently being destroyed in poland

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