End of the Warsaw Uprising On October 2, 1944, the Warsaw Uprising ended with the surrender of the surviving Polish rebels to German forces. After 63 days, the Poles, now deprived of weapons, supplies, food, and water, were forced to surrender. The Nazis deported Warsaw’s population en masse and destroyed the city. The destruction of Warsaw largely eliminated organized opposition to the establishment of the Communist government in Poland. The civilian victims of the uprising numbered 250,000. In the postwar period, the Communist regime attempted to erase much of the historical traces and the reasons and purposes of the uprising.
