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During the clearing up, unexploded bombs were
found, Attached to them were notes showing how
exactly the Germans calculated the quantity of
explosives necessary for each house. Warsaw had
been evacuated before the destruction started.
When the city finally fell, it was totally empty. Not
a living soul was found except German military and
Gestapo personnel.
It is also a well-known fact that the Russians did
not support the Polish attempt to revolt. The
motives behind this Russian passivity are obscure.
Various explanations have been given. One version
is that the revolution was started too early and that
it was so poorly organized that the Russians did not
believe they could contribute. Another explanation
is that they did not want to support the movement
as, in their opinion, it was inspired by the Polish
exile government in London. One thing is
absolutely certain, however, and that is that the greater
part of the Polish resistance groups lacked arms.
They had planned to acquire them from fallen
Germans, but their calculations failed.
Poland presented, during these spring days of
1947, a dark and dreary picture. Our gloomy
imprêssions of Warsaw were intensified when we
drove through a region about one hundred
kilometers northwest of the capitaÎ, where, during the
winter of 1944—1945, intense fighting had taken
place between Germans and Russians. The forests
we drove through were totally laid waste, and we
were told that it would take more than a hundred
years before the Polish forests would be what they
were before 1939, One can understand what this
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