Video: 'Battle Of Warsaw.'

(Tuesday, August 1, 1944, 5:00 p.m. local time; part of Operation Tempest during World War II) — The Warsaw Uprising, a major operation by the Polish resistance Home Army to liberate Warsaw from Nazi Germany began today to coincide with the Soviet Union’s Red Army approaching the eastern suburbs of the city and the retreat of German forces.

Video: 'The World At War: Pincers (2/4)' (Aug. 1, 1944, at 5:53)