The battle proved the fallibility of Hitler and the vincibility of the Wehrmacht, which up to then had enjoyed little but victory. |
Okulicki and Pelczynski thought the plan for Warsaw's underground fighters to wait until the Wehrmacht evacuated the city, and then harass its rearguard, was too passive. |
The offensive of the Wehrmacht, forced to attack, would be contained and then pushed back. |
A lot of Rivers's, and everybody else's who's been fooling with it around here, and half the Wehrmacht. |
At dawn the following day, the Wehrmacht, using an act of aggression as an excuse, attacked Poland. |
The Soviet Union then fielded a huge army that had bested the Wehrmacht and was fully capable of gobbling up large chunks of Western Europe. |