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THE BATTLE THAT SAVED EUROPE FROM COMMUNISM

Two people in Poland say they have found a Nazi German train cloaked in mystery since it was rumoured to have gone missing near the end of World War Two while carrying away gems and guns ahead of advancing Soviet Red Army forces. Local authorities in Poland’s southwestern district of Walbrzych said they had been contacted by a law firm representing a Pole and a German who said they had located the train and were seeking 10 percent of the value of the findings. “Lawyers, the army, the police and the fire brigade are dealing with this,” Marika Tokarska, an...

A dog has been rescued after it became stranded on an ice floe and was carried more than 100km down a river and into the Baltic Sea. Polish firefighters first witnessed the trapped dog on the Vistula River but were unable to rescue it before it floated away. Later, a Polish meterological institute was carrying out studies on the boat Baltica when the dog drifted past. "My officers saw the dog on the port side of the boat," said senior officer Jan Joachim. "A shape was moving and we immediately decided to get closer to check if it was a...