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"W" Hour

Index "W" Hour

"W" Hour, also spelled as W-Hour (Godzina „W”'), was the codename for the date and time that began Operation Tempest in German-occupied Warsaw, and hence the Warsaw Uprising. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 17 relations: Antoni Chruściel, Żoliborz, Home Army, Jan Stanisław Jankowski, Kazimierz Iranek-Osmecki, Leopold Okulicki, List of Government Delegates for Poland, Operation Tempest, Powązki Military Cemetery, Praga, Reiner Stahel, Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Tadeusz Pełczyński, Warsaw, Warsaw Citadel, Warsaw District (Home Army), Warsaw Uprising.

  2. Warsaw Uprising

Antoni Chruściel

Gen. Antoni Chruściel (nom de guerre Monter; 16 July 1895 – 30 November 1960) was a Polish military officer and a general of the Polish Army.

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Żoliborz

Żoliborz is one of the northern districts of the city of Warsaw.

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Home Army

The Home Army (Armia Krajowa,; abbreviated AK) was the dominant resistance movement in German-occupied Poland during World War II.

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Jan Stanisław Jankowski

Jan Stanisław Jankowski (6 May 1882 – 13 March 1953; noms de guerre Doktor, Jan, Klonowski, Sobolewski, Soból) was a Polish politician, an important figure in the Polish civil resistance during World War II and a Government Delegate at Home.

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Kazimierz Iranek-Osmecki

Kazimierz Wincenty Iranek-Osmecki (noms de guerre Kazimierz Jarecki, Włodzimierz Ronczewski, Makary, Antoni Heller, Pstrąg; 5 September 1897 – 22 May 1984, London) was an infantry colonel (pułkownik) in the Polish Army, and colonel in Poland's Home Army (AK).

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Leopold Okulicki

General Leopold Okulicki (noms de guerre Kobra, Niedźwiadek; 1898 – 1946) was a Polish Army general and the last commander of the anti-Nazi underground Home Army during World War II and the German occupation of Poland (1939–1945).

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List of Government Delegates for Poland

The following were the Government Delegates for Poland (Delegat Rządu na Kraj) during World War II.

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Operation Tempest

right Operation Tempest (akcja „Burza”, sometimes referred to in English as "Operation Storm") was a series of uprisings conducted during World War II against occupying German forces by the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa, abbreviated AK), the dominant force in the Polish resistance.

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Powązki Military Cemetery

Powązki Military Cemetery (Cmentarz Wojskowy na Powązkach) is an old military cemetery located in the Żoliborz district, western part of Warsaw, Poland.

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Praga

Praga is a district of Warsaw, Poland.

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Reiner Stahel

Rainer Joseph Karl August Stahel (sometimes wrongly written as Reiner; 15 January 1892 – 30 November 1955) was a German military officer and war criminal.

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Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski

Generał Tadeusz Komorowski (1 June 1895 – 24 August 1966), better known by the name Bór-Komorowski (after one of his wartime code-names: Bór – "The Forest") was a Polish military leader.

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Tadeusz Pełczyński

Tadeusz Walenty Pełczyński (codenames: Grzegorz, Adam, Wolf, Robak; Warsaw, 14 February 1892 – 3 January 1985, London) was a Polish Army major general (generał brygady), intelligence officer and chief of the General Staff's Section II (the military intelligence section).

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Warsaw

Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and largest city of Poland.

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Warsaw Citadel

Warsaw Citadel (Polish: Cytadela Warszawska) is a 19th-century fortress in Warsaw, Poland.

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Warsaw District (Home Army)

The District of Warsaw (of Armia Krajowa) (Polish: Okręg Warszawa) - one of territorial organisational units of Polish Home Army, which covered the territory of Warsaw and its close neighbourhood i.e. the Powiat of Warsaw.

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Warsaw Uprising

The Warsaw Uprising (powstanie warszawskie; Warschauer Aufstand), sometimes referred to as the August Uprising (powstanie sierpniowe), was a major World War II operation by the Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation.

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See also

Warsaw Uprising

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/"W"_Hour

Also known as 'W' Hour, The ‘W’ Hour, W Hour, W-Hour, .