[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Wow. Very moving footage. Thank you. My dad left Poland after WWII. As a young teenager, he was forcibly conscripted into the German army, deserted in Italy, joined a Polish regiment assembled by the British, and ended up in England after the war. They gave him a full college scholarship. He met my mother, and they came over here.

He said he came here because we were the only country that would resist communism.

Half of his family was killed in the war. His father, a civil engineer, was asked by the Germans to help repair a bridge blown up by the resistance, refused, and was taken away, never to be heard from again. His mother was eventually taken away, leaving him and his teenage sister alone, until he was taken away to work on a farm.

My mother survived the bombing of London, including a dud "blockbuster" that came through her neighbor's window and wedged itself in their fireplace. The slave-labor bomb-makers saved my mother's life. Unfortunately, her sister died of TB contracted after sleeping in the Underground.

My dad rarely spoke of the war years. He was ashamed of his forced tenure in the German army. We didn't learn of it until his later years. I spent a lot of weekends watching "World of War" with him.

[Dr. Ursus]

The brave Poles gave the West the German enigma machine,which saved countless lives and shortened the war.

[SuperSonic]

That’s a fascinating story. Maybe you should write a book about it.