First Polish Uprising

The First Polish Uprising was a failed rebellion in the General Government by Polish rebels against the oppressive German authorities. The rebellion began after the assassination of Governor-General Hans Frank and the German reprisals that followed on. The rebellion saw some initial success, though with the full force of the Wehrmacht able to bear down on the rebels they stood no chance of succeeding in their goals.
Although the exact numbers of casualties are unknown, it is estimated that around a million Polish and Ukrainian civilians were killed, as well as around 100,000 rebel fighters. Alongside this in the aftermath of the rebellion many millions of Poles were moved eastwards to the Ural and Moskowien Reichskommissariat's. 
==Prelude==
===Assassination of Hans Frank===
The Polish Resistance had long sought to rebel against their German occupier, seeking a way to relinquish their homeland of the foreign oppression. The group had long planned to assassinate the incompetent Governor-General Hans Frank, whose failure to root out the Polish Underground State inevitably led to the Uprising.
Towards the end of 1947 a bomb was set off underneath Hans Frank's car, killing him immediately. This attack was conducted by a rogue group from the communist Gwardia Ludowa. This assassination saw a hefty German response, some 7,500 Poles were murdered in the reprisals which itself sparked a Polish response. The resistance movements took this spark as their opportunity and rose up across the General Government, seeking to overthrow the german occupation forces, despite their chances being slim.
==Aftermath==
Following the failure of the First Polish Uprising to oust Germanic troops from the General Government, the German authorities took extremely brutal measures to punish the populace and try to ensure their future inability to rise up again. Many of the Poles and their descendants who had been expelled to the occupation zone after the German invasion in 1939 were now moved eastwards into the Ural and Moskowien Reichskommissariat's.
The General Government was also reformed into the General Governorate of the Vistula, an attempt to create a closer union between the Greater Germanic Reich and the occupied Polish lands. As well as this reformed entity, the Deputy Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, Reinhard Heydrich, was appointed the Governor of the territory. His success in suppressing the Czech population and of pursuing the Germanisation policies made him the ideal candidate to succeed the incompetent Hans Frank.
===Pabst Plan===
Following the end of the conflict many Polish cities were decimated by Germanic troops, in particular the troublesome Warsaw. The Germans had long planned to destroy the city and recreate it in the so-called 'Pabst Plan'.
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