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Following the Third Reich’s aggression against the Soviet Union, the Polish exiled authorities, and the underground organisations inside Poland linked with them, believed that Poland would be liberated as the outcome of a national uprising, supported in some way by the Anglo-Saxon allies, who would wage the decisive battle against the Axis countries. For this, the defeat of the Germans would have to come about at the right time and speed on the Eastern Front. Strong German resistance would have the effect of exhausting the offensive power of the Soviet Union, regarded by many members of the underground organisations and by Polish circles abroad as Enemy Number Two.
Translated from the French original by Elisabeth Barker.
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S. Mitkiewicz, Powstanie Warszawskie (The Warsaw Rising), Zeszyty Historyczne, No. 1, 1962, p. 137.
W.T. Kowalski, Wielka Koalicja 1941–1945 (The Grand Coalition 1941–1945), II, Warsaw 1975, p. 503.
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Madajczyk, C. (1988). Poland and Great Britain in 1944. In: Deakin, W., Barker, E., Chadwick, J. (eds) British Political and Military Strategy in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe in 1944. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19379-0_14
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