Name day: Sława, Jakub
Sunrise 5:19 am; sunset 8:35 pm; air temperature: 18°C
Sunny; Vistula river level: 163 cm



          After heavy fights, before noon, the Reinefahrt troops break through along Chłodna and Elektoralna Streets in the direction of Hale Mirowskie (Mirów Halls) at Iron Gate Square. The Reinefahrt group includes the SS-Sonderbataillon Dirlewanger commanded by SS-Oberführer Oskar Dirlewanger. The battalion is made up of criminals convicted mainly of poaching, but also of the most brutal offences, such as homicide or rape. The Sonderbataillon commits numerous acts of genocide in the subsequent districts of Warsaw, murdering the civilian population and wounded insurgents alike.
          The fights in the vicinity of the Wola Cemetery are intensifying.
          The scattered troops of the Sub-district of Wola are retreating to the area of Grzybowska and Biała Streets.
          Following a German concentrated gunfire, the enemy forces the insurgents out from the Evangelical and Calvinist Cemetery in Wola, but the partisans' counterattack results in recapturing this area. The situation is critical, however.
          The following officers sustain heavy wounds in the skirmish: Lieutenant Colonel Jan Tarnowski "Waligóra", commander of the Sub-district of Wola, and Captain Adam Borys "Pług" ("Plough"), commander of the "Parasol" ("Umbrella") battalion.
          The Germans capture Mirów Halls and Iron Gate Square and finally reach the Brühl Palace, liberating Stahel and Fischer.

          The Germans are launching an attack on the "Golski" group occupying the main building of the Warsaw University of Technology.

          The enemy is unsuccessfully continuing attacks on the insurgent positions on Aleje Jerozolimskie.

          A new group "Bartkiewicz" is formed in the area of Królewska Street and the Małachowski Palace.

          The massacre of the civilian population in Ochota and Wola is ongoing. Among others, the actor Mariusz Maszyński and his family are killed in the Ochota slaughter.

          The Home Army Headquarters and the Government Delegation for Poland evacuate from the Kamler factory in Wola to the Old City.

          Mokotów and Śródmieście establish contact using underground sewers. On the night of August 5 and 6, the messenger "Ela" (Elżbieta Ostrowska) uses the sewers to get across from Śródmieście to Mokotów, thus opening a permanent underground passage between the two districts.

          The state of possession of the Sub-district of Żoliborz is as follows: the area stretching from Inwalidów Square and Aleje Wojska Polskiego in the south to Potocka Street in the north. The insurgents control all lower Żoliborz. Marymont remains "no man's land".

          The Scout Field Mail, formed by Lieutenant Colonel Scoutmaster Przemysław Górecki "Kuropatwa" ("Partridge"), commences its activity.

          A holy mass takes place in the Old Town at the Field Cathedral, followed by a march-past of insurgent troops down Dolna Street.

          On the premises of the rolling stock repair workshop in Pruszków, the Germans set up the transit camp "Dulag 121" for the civilian population of Warsaw. The camp will see over half a million people being transferred through its barracks.