Dialogue and Universalism

Volume 16, Issue 7/9, 2006

Europeization and Universalization of the Tragism and Meanings of the Warsaw Uprisings of 1943 and 1944

Jerzy Kłoczowski
Pages 13-26

The Warsaw Uprising in Memory and Historiography

The author, an insurgent and a historian, presents a series of remarks on the subject of the Warsaw Uprising and related research work. Among others, he points to the necessity of establishing an Institute that would research the issues in a complex way and demands speeding up the work on critical papers about military actions by the insurgent forces; he also remarks that the Polish insurgents, without knowing it, became the defenders of Europe’s freedom against Stalinism. There is mention that Warsaw constituted a monument to “Nazi Barbarity”, as well as Polish-Polish controversies on the issue of the Uprising, that still remain, even today.