However, the approaching Red Army temporarily halted outside the city, enabling the Germans to regroup and defeat the uprising.

[2] The Warsaw Shield was instituted on 10 December 1944 by Adolf Hitler, with full award regulations published in the Reich Law Gazette.

[3] It was to be "awarded as a battle badge to members of the armed forces and non-military personnel who, between 1 August and 2 October 1944 were honourably engaged in the fighting in Warsaw".

[6] The award was to be a 50 × 62 mm[7] bronze-coloured shield showing a large Wehrmacht-style eagle with folded wings grasping a writhing snake.

[8][9] This means that examples produced since the war have no official standing, and public wear of the shield in its original form with the swastika would not be allowed under German law.