Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw (178 page)

Soviet medal ‘Liberation of Warsaw’

People’s Poland medal ‘Warsaw 1939-45’

Warsaw Rising medal (Warsaw, 1981)

Victory Parade, London, 1946: no Polish representatives

Delayed Respects

Chancellor Brandt’s
Warschauer Kniefall,
December 1970, when no monument to the Warsaw Rising existed

RAF graves from 1944: British War Cemetery, Cracow

‘The Little Insurgent’: recovery of ‘Antek’ ’s body, August 1944

Monument, 1981

Warsaw Rising Monument, 1989

August 2002: the annual candlelight vigil, Warsaw Military Cemetery

Aftermath

Warsaw, September 1944

General ‘Boor’ in exile, London, 1956