Nice to know my suspicions about the Red Army ain't warranted, either. I've duly marked Erickson for later reference.
Cheers, Rob.
>What you are thinking of was the Polish "Home Army" (_Armija Krajowa_)
>uprising of August -October 1944. There were still a few Jews left in
>Warsaw & they joined the uprising - or at least tried to - since there
>are survivor accounts that some of the Home Army folks stopped fighting
>the Germans in order to kill the remaining Jews. The magisterial account
>of the political and military situation in which the Home Army uprising
>began and the Red Army offensive ground to a halt is John Erickson's
>_Road to Berlin_ pp.247-290. He concludes - and there is no-one more
>authoritative - that the offensive had reached its furthest possible
>limit in early August, and that given Model's counter-thrust there was
>no military possiblility of "crossing the river."
>
>john mage