"I lived in Warsaw for six years and there I came to understand how important the uprising still is today. Since then, this topic has never left me," the autor, Professor Stephan Lehnstaedt of Touro University, told PAP.
"When the [German armed forces] Bundeswehr asked me if I could write this book so that their soldiers could learn something about the Warsaw Uprising, I immediately agreed,” he noted.
„It really shows that there is also interest in the Warsaw Uprising in Germany," he added.
Lehnstaedt elaborated he had been researching the topic for many years, starting back in 2005 when he was working on a thesis about the daily lives of German occupiers in Warsaw.
"The events of 1944 remain the foremost symbol of Polish heroism and the struggle for freedom during World War II. Yet, it was also a national tragedy, met with extraordinary German brutality—mass executions, deportations, and the systematic destruction of the capital," Germany's Reclam publishing house wrote on its website.
The publication marks the first German monograph on the Warsaw Uprising since Hanns von Krannhals' work in 1962, according to PAP.
The Warsaw Uprising was a major World War II operation by the Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from Nazi German occupation.
It occurred in the summer of 1944, and it was led by the Polish resistance Home Army (Polish: Armia Krajowa).
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Source: PAP