Vest-Europa feiret freden og satte igang med gjenreisningen etter krigen. I Polen fortsatte polakkene kampen mot kommunistene helt fram til 1963.
“Do not leave the graves of soldiers with broken souls. Do not leave them with a sense of defeat and hopelessness, but with an irrefutable belief that in spirit grow new values; the values are not mine, not yours, but for all of us – the value of belonging to the whole nation. It is necessary to keep the memory of them everlasting and living.” Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły
Polens innstats i andre verdenskrig var STOR- les mer.