The Germans brutally stamped out the Polish uprising. The leaders of the uprising, members of the anti-Communist Polish underground, accused the Soviets of having held back to allow the Germans to put down the rebellion, and of having withheld their assistance. During the two months of the uprising, 250,000 Poles lost their lives in a hopeless attempt to rid themselves of Nazi occupation. In retaliation the Germans exiled many of the Warsaw Poles and razed most of the city to the ground.
