Name day: Gerald, Teodor
Sunrise 6:41 am; sunset 6:46 pm; average air temperature: 15°C
Mostly cloudy; Vistula river level: 49 cm



          The Germans are attacking Upper Mokotów. General Rohr's forces are storming the district from two directions.
          On the east side, the Germans achieve some successes: they capture the Królikarnia ("Rabbit House") Palace and reach the line of Ksawerów Street.
          In the west section, the insurgents manage to keep their line of defense (the strongholds of "Alkazar" and "Westerplatte" on Aleje Niepodległości).
          At night the insurgents attempt to recapture the Królikarnia Palace, but their attack collapses under heavy enemy fire.
          All-out enemy attacks on other insurgent positions in Mokotów are mostly repelled, but at the cost of heavy casualties.

          After a few-day break, the Germans continue their attacks on the positions of "Golski" on Noakowskiego Street in Śródmieście.

          General Antoni Chruściel "Monter" ("Assembler") informs Marshal Rokossovsky that a potential military cooperation at the Vistula River is still possible if the Soviet authorities decide to deploy their forces to this area.

          Himmler delivers a speech in which he brings the question of the Uprising.
          He says among others: "This battle is the heaviest one from among those we have fought since the beginning of the war. You can compare it to the street fights over Stalingrad. But we will pull through. And then Warsaw - the capital, the head, the intelligentsia of this ex-nation of 16, 17 million Poles - will be destroyed, this nation that has been blocking our path to the East for over 700 years. At that moment the historical Polish problem will cease to be an important problem to our children. I have given an order to raze Warsaw to the ground."

edited by: Maciej Janaszek-Seydlitz

translated by: Beata Murzyn