Posted on 08/01/2014 2:27:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“Warsaw” by Johnny Klegg and Savuka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv4wtU9cU_w
Can there not be any doubt that the reckless, evil disregard for basic morality exists today in the hearts and minds of the average Democrat politician and most assuredly in the hearts and minds of Democrat leadership?
Can there also not be any doubt that those who have made money their god in the GOP-E by allowing themselves to be bought and sold by the Chamber of Cronyism (Commerce) are on the same path as the Soviets in this story?
Thanks for the reminder
I saw the other night the film “Remembrance” (original tile Die Verlorene Zeit) which took place during this time period. It is playing now on Netflix and is worth seeing.
Die Verlorene Zeit (Remembrance) depicts a remarkable love story that blossomed amidst the terror of a German concentration camp in 1944 Poland. This impossible passion fuels the courage of a Polish prisoner who manages to rescue his Jewish girlfriend. Against all odds, they escape the camp and survive a treacherous journey to freedom. But during the chaos of the end of the war, they are forcibly separated and each is convinced that the other has died. More than thirty years later in New York, the happily married 52-year-old woman accidentally finds out that her former Polish lover is still alive. And she has to see him again.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1728620/
Mila 18 by Leon Uris
“Mila 18 by Leon Uris”
Excellent book.
“Kanal” was a horrifying film about the war underground in Warsaw as mentioned in the article.
Also, one of the top leaders of the Free Polish Army was Stefan Korbonski, a late friend of mine. He was the only Polish military leader who sent arms into the Warsaw Ghetto so that the Jews could defend themselves from the Nazis.
He was later awarded Israel’s highest medal for a non-Jewish person, as a “Righteous Gentile”, for his support of Poland’s Jews.
In person, he was a mild-mannered man who looked like a tailor, but he was one helluva freedom fighter (and friend of the great Jan Karski, another Polish leader). I was honored to sit at many luncheons with a genuine hero and humanitarian.
What an outstanding history and comments. Thank you (and those adding in the comments) so much for posting.
bump
Bfl
Hundreds of thousands of the Warsawers spontaneously fled to the streets all across the city to commemorate 70th anniversary of the uprising, chanting "Honor and glory to the heroes" and singing the national anthem as the clock struck 5 p.m. sharp - the Hour "W".
Well, actually they flocked to the streets instead of... (LOL)
Lao Che - Godzina W
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_d7DtcmhVE
I’m riding the tram to war, in the section which is only meant “for Germans”,
With 1st of August sweat on my brow, I’m in a cold barrel along with my Visa in my pant leg.
Axe, hoe, saw, cup,
my white-red armband - an insurgent armband.
With fear in my pocket, coat of arms and rolled tobacco
I’m not cracking, I’m heading for death just like that - on a short shirt.
Under ground soldiers - Aye!
Battalion “Hacky Sack” Aye!
Battalion “Fist” Aye!
Battalion “Broom Stick” Aye!
“Watch 49”, “Umbrella Group”!
‘And so my dear son you left with black weapons at night,
And you felt the uprising when - evil - times called.
Before you fell, you said your goodbye’s to the dirt with your hand,
Was it a bullet my son, or did your heart burst?’
Burst? Burst?
‘It’s for the beard - It’s fantastic.’
‘We the Poles have the Romantic opinion.’
‘We have one charge - (to charge) up into heaven,
And we have one order - (to have a) cross over our graves.’
‘One charge - (to charge) up into heaven,
One order - (to have a) cross over our graves.’
‘And so my dear son you left with black weapons at night,
And you felt the uprising when - evil - times called.
Before you fell, you said your goodbye’s to the dirt with your hand,
Was it a bullet my son, or did your heart burst?’
Burst? Burst?...
Stain’s mask comes all the way off.
Actually, a good English translation is impossible as the Polish lyrics have been written in a prewar Warsaw slang, sometimes to us, regular contemporary Poles, hard to understand. But then again, all that happened in the Warsaw of 1944.
Godzina “W” anniversary bump!
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