Comments by "Kameraden" (@Alte.Kameraden) on "The WORST unit in the SS - the Oskar Dirlewanger Brigade" video.
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@daviddoran3673 So witness testimony from Soviet Soldiers are wrong then? I remember one Russian saying they were ordered to remove parachutes from supplies that the Red Army were dropping into Warsaw. All so they could say they did something. He said it was useless as the supplies would disintegrate upon impact upon streets.
Other accounts from Polish conscripts who were ordered into the city are just as bad. They were sent without supplies, and most were recently conscripted from the Polish countryside, with no training. The Polish resistance called them utterly worthless, claiming many of them just went into hiding.
There was no German counter attack that stopped the Russian advance, as they captured the eastern party of the city while the murders were still going on and Resistance fighters were still fighting. The Red Army halted along the river, and then did nothing... Waited until the entire city west of the banks were leveled to the ground.
That being said going to use this quotes from Wiki which does provide a source. Being it sums it up quite well.
"The role of the Red Army during the Warsaw Uprising remains controversial and is still disputed by historians.[20] The Uprising started when the Red Army appeared on the city's doorstep, and the Poles in Warsaw were counting on Soviet front capturing or forwarding beyond the city in a matter of days. This basic scenario of an uprising against the Germans, launched a few days before the arrival of Allied forces, played out successfully in a number of European capitals, such as Paris[140] and Prague. However, despite easy capture of area south-east of Warsaw barely 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) from the city centre and holding these positions for about 40 days, the Soviets did not extend any effective aid to the resistance within Warsaw. At that time city outskirts were defended by the under-manned and under-equipped German 73rd Infantry Division which was destroyed many times on the Eastern Front and was yet-again being reconstituted.[141] The weak German defence forces did not experience any significant Soviet pressure during that period, which effectively allowed them to strengthen German forces fighting against uprising in the city itself."
"Declassified documents from Soviet archives reveal that Stalin gave instructions to cut off the Warsaw resistance from any outside help. The urgent orders issued to the Red Army troops in Poland on 23 August 1944 stipulated that the Home Army units in Soviet-controlled areas should be prevented from reaching Warsaw and helping the Uprising, their members apprehended and disarmed. Only from mid-September, under pressure from the Western Allies, the Soviets began to provide some limited assistance to the resistance."
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