16. Talks resumed between the Poles and the Germans at the end of September
By September 28 talks over the surrender of the Home Army units still fighting were resumed, and on October 2, 1944, the remaining resistance fighters agreed to lay down their arms in capitulation. The following day German troops assembled the Home Army troops, disarmed them, and prepared them to be sent to POW camps in Germany, rather than the concentration camps. Several thousand resistance fighters discarded their weapons and military paraphernalia, assuming places within the surviving civilian population of the city, many of them planning to continue resisting the Germans through the underground. They did not anticipate the German response to the events in Warsaw.
The Germans, with the Red Army still standing nearby, evacuated the remaining civilians from Warsaw, about 350,000 – 550,000 men, women, and children. They were sent to a transit camp. From there about 90,000 were dispatched to forced labor camps if they were deemed to be able bodied and of value to the Reich. All but 60,000 of the remainder were sent to various processing camps and released. The 60,000 retained were sent to various concentration camps, including in some cases the death camps such as Auschwitz, where their fate was determined by the camp officials as they disembarked the trains upon which they arrived. By November 1945 the city of Warsaw was abandoned, other than the German troops stationed there for another purpose.
