WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland held a state burial today for more than 700 victims of Nazi Germany's World War II mass executions, whose remains were...
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Poland on Sunday marked the 85th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, with an annual sundown memorial service commemorating the first attacks by Nazi Germany that sparked the deadly conflict. Nearly six million Poles died in a war that killed more than 50 million people, including six million Jews who died in the Holocaust, half of whom were Poles. The commemoration ceremony was held in the traditional manner at Westerplatte, on Poland's Baltic coast, where a Nazi German warship shelled a Polish fortress 85 years ago. Speaking at Westerplatte, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the lessons of World War II were “not insignificant” and had parallels with the war in neighbouring Ukraine. Polish Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz attends a ceremony marking the 85th anniversary of World War II at Westerplatte in Gdansk, September 1, 2024. (Photo: Marcin Gadomski/AFP) “This war is coming again from the east,” he said. Tusk urged NATO member states to “fully defend against the attacks we are witnessing today on the Ukrainian battlefield.” Adolf Hitler's invasion of Poland prompted Britain and France to declare war on Nazi Germany. On September 17, the Soviet Union in turn occupied Poland. After the Nazis broke their treaty …
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland held a state burial today for more than 700 victims of Nazi Germany's World War II mass executions, whose remains were...
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