When we invaded the Ghetto for the first time, the Jews and the Polish bandits succeeded in repelling the participating units… 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.
Jürgen Stroop’s report of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943