Operation Tempest
Operation Tempest (Polish: 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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| Part of Eastern Front and World War II | |||||||||
Polish soldiers during the Warsaw Uprising. | |||||||||
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| Germany |
Soviet Union | ||||||||
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Hans Frank Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski |
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski Leopold Okulicki Konstanty Rokossowski Stanisław Popławski | ||||||||
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| Polish Underground State |
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Operation Tempest's objective was to seize control of German-occupied cities and areas while the Germans were preparing their defenses against the advancing Soviet Red Army. The Polish Underground State hoped to take power before the Soviets arrived.
A goal of the Polish government-in-exile in London was to restore Poland's 1939 borders with the USSR, rejecting the Curzon Line border. According to Jan Ciechanowski,
"The [exiled] Polish Cabinet believed that by refusing to accept the Curzon Line they were defending their country's right to exist as a national entity. They were determined that Russo-Polish relations should be restored on the basis of the pre-1939 territorial arrangements."