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WWII allies, German foe pay historic tribute to Warsaw uprising victims 5 minutes ago Add World - AFP to My Yahoo! WARSAW (AFP) - Leaders from the United States, Britain and Germany joined Poland in paying a historic tribute to the resistance fighters who took on the Nazis in the doomed Warsaw uprising 60 years ago. "As a military man who has served in war and who has lost close friends in combat, I do not use the word hero lightly," US Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) told a gala ceremony closing three days of commemorations...

WARSAW, Poland - Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) told Poland on Sunday that it need never fear the kind of outside domination it has endured in the 20th century because the United States now stands at its side. Powell spoke hours before he participated in a ceremony commemorating the 60th anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Uprising, a rebellion against Nazi occupiers that was crushed after 63 days. The heroism of the Polish fighters is commemorated each Aug. 1. "Poland will never be alone again, especially with the United States standing alongside Poland," Powell told...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Secretary of State Colin Powell told Poles Sunday, the 60th anniversary of the World War II Warsaw Uprising, that they would never be left alone again as they were when Nazi forces crushed the rebellion. Powell is in Warsaw to commemorate the bloody 1944 Warsaw Uprising, along with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder -- the first German head of government to attend its anniversary -- and British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott. The failed uprising, meant to liberate the capital before Soviet communists imposed their totalitarian regime, left some 150,000 civilians dead, Warsaw reduced to rubble and Poland condemned...

<p>WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on Sunday honored Poles who fought Nazi occupiers in the doomed Warsaw Uprising 60 years ago, bowing at a memorial to the insurgents and acknowledging the "immeasurable suffering" Germans inflicted on their neighbor.</p>

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WARSAW (AFP) - Poland from Friday marks the 60th anniversary of the start of the World War II Warsaw uprising in which a whole city was destroyed and 200,000 people killed on the orders of German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder will make an unprecedented attendance by a German head of government at the commemorations of what is considered one of the most catastrophic and yet least known events of World War II. "The rising was very embarrassing to the western powers. Western mythology said we won the war but the rising was one of the big catastrophes...

WARSAW, Poland (Reuters) - Lucjan Wisniewski is an unsung hero of one of the last great World War II battles lost by the Allies -- the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. He fought to liberate his country from Nazi rule, but unlike his Western peers, he was prosecuted for doing so afterwards. To this day he keeps one of his battalion's most treasured possessions -- its ragged, blood-stained banner -- rolled up at home. He will finally hand the banner to a museum on Sunday exactly 60 years after Poles took up arms in an attempt to drive the Nazis from...

Warsaw Uprising according to U.S. Senate Print version The U.S. Senate has passed unanimously a resolution commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising. The resolution will be soon voted by the House of Representatives. The resolution described the uprising as one of the most heroic battles during WW2 and stressed that the spirit of the Polish resistance is an inspiration to all peoples in their pursuit of liberty and democracy. The Senate recognized the 60th anniversary of the Uprising which will forever serve as a symbol of heroism in the face of great adversity and the pursuit of freedom....

AUGUST 2004 will mark the 60th anniversary of the Warsaw uprising, when 40,000 members of the Polish underground Home Army spilled into the streets to liberate the city from its Nazi occupiers. The revolt was inspired in part by the belief that the Red Army would come to the aid of the rebels. Russian units had advanced to the eastern bank of the Vistula River and were within supporting distance of the Warsaw fighters, but once Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, commander of the First Belarussian Front, declined to intervene, the Germans were freed not only to suppress the uprising but also...

A man with a fascinating war record and a distinguished career in South African politics gave the MAIN talk of the evening. Senator Eric Winchester spoke to us on the subject of The Warsaw Uprising: My Role and Involvement, so he was the third of our October speakers of whom we could say, they "were there". Eric joined the army in 1940 at the age of 17, having lied about his age, and was posted to East Africa. As he was seeing no action he tried to join the RAF but was turned down due to his poor eyesight. After...

<p>WASHINGTON -- The veterans have left town. The flags have been packed away for the Fourth of July. The memory of the Second World War, our Second World War, has been honored -- so now perhaps it's worth taking a moment to honor someone else's. An opportunity to do so will present itself this Sunday, when CNN broadcasts an unusual documentary called "Warsaw Rising." The timing of the broadcast is deliberate: the week after the dedication of the National World War II Memorial, the 60th anniversary of D-Day and -- soon -- the 60th anniversary of the Warsaw uprising itself, which began on Aug. 1. As CNN puts it, here's a chance to listen while "the survivors of this little-known tragedy of the war finally tell their story."</p>

Dear Lord, There's a young man far from home, called to serve his nation in time of war; sent to defend our freedom on some distant foreign shore. We pray You keep him safe, we pray You keep him strong, we pray You send him safely home ... for he's been away so long. There's a young woman far from home, serving her nation with pride. Her step is strong, her step is sure, there is courage in every stride. We pray You keep her safe, we pray You keep her strong, we pray You send her safely home...