Editing Operation Tempest (section)

{{Short description|1944–1945 anti-Nazi uprising in Poland}}
{{Other uses|Tempest (disambiguation){{!}}Tempest}}
{{Infobox military conflict
| name              = Operation Tempest
| partof            = [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front]] and [[World War II]]
| image             = Warsaw Uprising Blyskawica.jpg
| caption           = Polish soldiers during the [[Warsaw Uprising]].
| date              = January 4, 1944 – January 1, 1945
| place             = [[Nazi Germany]], [[Poland]], [[General Government]]
| casus             = 
| territory         = Most of Poland occupied by the [[Red Army]] and their [[Polish People's Army|Polish Allies]]
| combatant1        = {{flagcountry|Nazi Germany}}
| combatant2        = {{flag|Polish Underground State}}
*[[Home Army]]
| commander1        = [[Hans Frank]]<br> [[Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski]]
| commander2        = [[Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski]]<br>[[Leopold Okulicki]]
| campaignbox       = {{Campaignbox Operation Tempest}}{{Campaignbox Poland 1944-1945}}
| conflict          = 
| result            = 
}}
{{Polish Underground State sidebar}}
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'''Operation Tempest''' or '''Operation Burza'''{{Efn|Polish: akcja „Burza”}} ({{langx|pl|akcja „Burza”}}, sometimes referred to in English as "Operation Storm") was a series of uprisings conducted during [[World War II]] against occupying German forces by the Polish [[Home Army]] (''Armia Krajowa'', abbreviated ''AK''), the dominant force in the [[Polish resistance movement in World War II|Polish resistance]].

Operation Tempest's objective was to seize control of German-occupied cities and areas while the Germans were preparing their defenses against the advancing Soviet [[Red Army]]. The [[Polish Underground State]] hoped to take power before the Soviets arrived.

A goal of the [[Polish government-in-exile]] in [[London]] was to restore Poland's 1939 borders with the USSR, rejecting the [[Curzon Line]] border. According to [[Jan Ciechanowski (diplomat)|Jan Ciechanowski]],<blockquote>"The [exiled] Polish Cabinet believed that by refusing to accept the [[Curzon Line]] they were defending their country's right to exist as a national entity. They were determined that Russo-Polish relations should be restored on the basis of the pre-1939 territorial arrangements."<ref>Jan. M. Ciechanowski. The Warsaw Rising of 1944.  Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. London. 1974. p.9</ref></blockquote>