What an excellent read.
Thank you.
Requiescat in Pace
Now THAT is reporting.
In 1999, my family and I visited a newly opened museum in Warsaw with some Polish college students. The museum was dedicated to Poland during WWII.
One of the students told of his aunt and uncle who had fled from the German invasion from the north, in Gdansk. His relatives took a train to Warsaw. As their train arrived at the station, Russian troops were arriving by train at the same station from the east. His relatives got back on a train to go home.
Thus, the Germans and the Russians both invaded Poland during the start of the war.
One of the stories of the museum was that Auschwitz, and other concentration camps, were first employed to imprison the Polish upper class. The Germans intended to destroy the upper class and leave the lower classes to use as slaves. This imprisonment of Polish people started in 1940. Using the concentration camps against the Jews started later, in 1942.
When I was in high school, I would check the bias of history textbooks by examining how they treated certain events. Many American history books neglected to mention that Stalin and Hitler were allies when the war broke out. Even after 30 years, the American academic community was covering for Joe Stalin and the Communists.
10 divisions, wow.
That was a smart and brave woman.
No by-line.
I must have missed that.
I was focused on the pennant race and DiMaggio's batting average.
Wonder how it would be reported today.
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Ping.
What a remarkable life and woman.
RIP
That’s a great lady.
Wow! I had never heard or seen this story before.
105! Remarkable.
She had her 104th birthday at the FCC in HK. Got a standing ovation on the way out.
RIP. Amazing lady.
RIP
RIP.