Betrayal: The Battle for Warsaw

2005, 45 min.

Betrayal: The Battle for Warsaw (2005)

Production

Producer Andrew Rothstein
Editor George Pozderec
Narrator Michael Carroll
Composer Robert Firpo-cappiello
Voice Over Actors Grzegorz Herminski, Nina Polan
Camera Andy Anderson, Wim Devos, Mike Marriott, Adam Shanker
Executive in Charge of Production Margery Baker (Eye Too Productions), Susan Werbe (History Channel)
Story
The Warsaw Rising of August 1, 1944 was one of the most desperate and tragic battles in modern warfare. Waged by an ill-equipped but heroic insurgent army against the mighty German war machine, the bloody 63-day battle ultimately led to the total destruction of Warsaw, Poland’s ancient capital city and to the death of over 250,000 Polish civilians and soldiers.

It was a battle that could have changed world history. If the Poles had won, they and the whole of Eastern Europe might have escaped Soviet domination for the next 45 years… Yet, even as the fighting raged in the heart of their beloved city, the Poles were callously betrayed… not by their enemies… but by their allies.