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According to American historian Richard C. Lucas in his book The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, these are the damages inflicted onto the Germans by the Polish Home Army: Locomotives damaged: 6,930 Locomotives delayed in overhaul: 803 Trains derailed: 732 Railroad cars destroyed: 979 Railroad cars damaged: 19,058 Railroad cars set on fire: 443 Disruptions of electric power in Warsaw: 638 Military vehicles damaged or destroyed: 4,326 Railroad bridges blown up: 38 Aircraft damaged: 28 Aircraft destroyed: 68 Gasoline destroyed by tonnage: 4,674 Oil refineries incapacitated: 3 Carloads of wood burned: 150 Military warehouses burned: 122 Military food storage burned: 8 Production in factories brought to halt: 7 Factories burned: 15 Defective parts for aircraft engines produced: 4,710 Defective cannon barrels produced: 203 Defective artillery shells produced: 92,000 Defective aircraft produced: 107 Defective parts produced for electrical appliances: 570,000Important plant machinery damaged: 2,872 Various other acts of sabotage: 25,145 Attacks on German soldiers: 5,733 It’s important to note however, that General Eduard Bor-Komorowski, the leader of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, commented saying that “This summary gives only the more characteristic acts of sabotage and is only half the picture of the scope of our activities.”

According to American historian Richard C. Lucas in his book The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, these are the damages inflicted onto the Germans by the Polish Home Army:

Locomotives damaged: 6,930
Locomotives delayed in overhaul: 803
Trains derailed: 732
Railroad cars destroyed: 979
Railroad cars damaged: 19,058
Railroad cars set on fire: 443
Disruptions of electric power in Warsaw: 638
Military vehicles damaged or destroyed: 4,326
Railroad bridges blown up: 38
Aircraft damaged: 28
Aircraft destroyed: 68
Gasoline destroyed by tonnage: 4,674
Oil refineries incapacitated: 3
Carloads of wood burned: 150
Military warehouses burned: 122
Military food storage burned: 8
Production in factories brought to halt: 7
Factories burned: 15
Defective parts for aircraft engines produced: 4,710
Defective cannon barrels produced: 203
Defective artillery shells produced: 92,000
Defective aircraft produced: 107
Defective parts produced for electrical appliances: 570,000
Important plant machinery damaged: 2,872
Various other acts of sabotage: 25,145
Attacks on German soldiers: 5,733

It’s important to note however, that General Eduard Bor-Komorowski, the leader of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, commented saying that “This summary gives only the more characteristic acts of sabotage and is only half the picture of the scope of our activities.”

Tags: World War IIResistancePartisansPolish Home ArmyEastern Front

February 03, 2011, 8:47pm / 20

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