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(47,953 posts)It wasn't from a lack of effort that they failed
"When we invaded the Ghetto for the first time, the Jews and the Polish bandits succeeded in repelling the participating units, including tanks and armored cars, by a well-prepared concentration of fire. (...) The main Jewish battle group, mixed with Polish bandits, had already retired during the first and second day to the so-called Muranowski Square. There, it was reinforced by a considerable number of Polish bandits. Its plan was to hold the Ghetto by every means in order to prevent us from invading it. (...) Time and again Polish bandits found refuge in the Ghetto and remained there undisturbed, since we had no forces at our disposal to comb out this maze. (...) One such battle group succeeded in mounting a truck by ascending from a sewer in the so-called Prosta [Street], and in escaping with it (about 30 to 35 bandits). (...) The bandits and Jews there were Polish bandits among these gangs armed with carbines, small arms, and in one case a light machine gun mounted the truck and drove away in an unknown direction."
Jürgen Stroop, 1943[29]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising