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Russia’s defense ministry accuses Armia Krayova of ‘destroying Jews’ in Warsaw, amid feud with Poland over war’s historyRussia’s defense ministry on Friday accused the Polish resistance movement that staged the Warsaw uprising of 1944 of “destroying Jews,” in the latest salvo of Moscow’s feud with Poland over WWII history. The accusations were posted with a trove of declassified documents called “Warsaw Under Fire” on the 75th anniversary of Soviet forces’ taking the city after more than five years of occupation by Nazi Germany. The Russian defense ministry published a multimedia website Friday to mark the anniversary with scans of documents...

Żołnierz drogą maszerował... (Tę kolędę tę jedyną/ śpiewam dla Ciebie, Dziecino) Kolęda żołnierska [Soldier Marched Down The Road: This Carol, This Only One / I'm Singing For Thee, Baby Jesus] [The Polish soldier’s Christmas carol] - Chór 4 Asy [Choir 4 Aces] Melodje, 1946 (Polish) NOTE: This Soldier’s Carol from wintter 1945 was written as a Christmas Carol by an unknown author to the melody of a well known Polish partisan song: Żołnierz drogą maszerował (A Soldier Marched Down The Road). Text of this carol describes the meeting of a young Polish soldier with the Infant Jesus. The soldier turns...

If you want to know why Donald Trump will go down in history as a great president, listen to (or read, when it is available) his speech in Krasinski Square, Warsaw today. Yes, there is a lot of the usual diplomatic persiflage: “Thank you, President Duda. Thank you, Poland.” But be an adult and distinguish the gem from the setting. While the anti-Trump press was busy running stories warning about “unease in Brussels” over Trump’s visit to Poland, Trump once again totally outflanked his critics. Those who have ears, let them hear:

SABATON – „Uprising“ video trailer online! A teaser of the upcoming video clip "Uprising" by Swedish epic power metal superstars SABATON has been broadcasted on Polish TV this week! Check it out at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq1M8qqobdo The clip, marking one of the biggest productions in heavy metal, features famous Hollywood actor Peter Stomare (8MM, Fargo, The Big Leboswki etc) and is about the Warsaw Uprising in 1944! The clip will premiere on August first, the anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising in Poland and worldwide on August 3 via MySpace www.sabaton.net | www.myspace.com/sabaton | www.nuclearblast.de/sabaton

Poland marks heroic, tragic Warsaw uprising Aug 1, 2010 6:53 PM | By Dominika Maslikowski, Warsaw observed a minute’s silence Sunday, as the city stopped to pay tribute in commemoration of the 66th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising — the heroic but doomed 1944 fight back against Nazi occupation. Buses and trams came to a stop and people in streets and cafes stood to show their respects when the sirens wailed at the exact moment Sunday when Varsovians took up arms against their German occupiers. “You can destroy a city, and its infrastructure,” said Warsaw Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz at the...

Poland remembers the Warsaw Rising Created: 01.08.2008 08:20 Today marks the 64th anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Rising of 1944, the biggest operation organised and executed by a partisan organisation in WWII. In the Uprising, lasting 63 days, 18,000 insurgents were killed and 25,000 wounded. Losses among the civilians amounted to 180,000 people. Much of the capital was razed to the ground and left in ruins. The battle began on August 1, 1944, as part of a nation-wide rebellion, Operation Tempest. and was intended to last for only a few days until the Soviet Army reached the city...

The exhibition THE CITY OF PHOENIX - WAR*SAW EVERYTHING is a non-profit undertaking in order to present the war and post-war history of Warsaw, it's destruction and reconstruction The exhibition THE CITY OF PHOENIX - WAR*SAW EVERYTHING is a collection of 28 photomontages, where photos from the Warsaw Uprising have been morphed with modern day photos of the exact same places.

RPG game about Warsaw Risisng 05.07.2008 It was published by Bully Pulpit Games, in the US and designed by Jason Morningstar. It proved a huge success in America, though has not found its way to Poland yet. ‘Grey Ranks is a game for three to five players’, write the publishers, ‘that puts you in the shoes of child soldiers during the Warsaw Uprising. The game is designed to be played over three sessions and includes a scene structure, with each scene corresponding to a specific date in 1944. As the game progresses, success becomes increasingly difficult and the player is...

Aug 1, 2007, 12:31 GMT Warsaw - Memorial ceremonies across Poland Wednesday marked the 63rd anniversary of the tragic Warsaw Uprising of Polish Home Army (AK) partisans against occupying Nazi German forces, bent on systematically destroying the Polish capital and its population during World War Two. 'It is very difficult to suffer such a great loss, but Poland would be weaker today if not for the Warsaw Uprising,' Poland's Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski told reporters after a ceremonial changing of the guard at Poland's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Fought in a bid to secure Poland's post-war independence, the Warsaw...

Polish historians find WWII bomber with remains of Canadian, British crew By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Polish historians have recovered a Royal Air Force Halifax bomber from the Second World War and the remains of its Canadian and British crew, a find yielding treasures for a Warsaw museum that could also provide closure for the families of the doomed airmen. The badly-damaged hull of the bomber from the 148 Squadron RAF, with remains of its crew, documents and personal belongings, was recently found buried under a field near the southern town of Dabrowa Tarnowska, project manager Piotr Sliwowski...

1944: Poles surrender after Warsaw uprising The Germans have crushed a rebellion in Warsaw led by the Polish Home Army. Street fighting began on 1 August as Soviet troops were heard battling on the outskirts of the Polish capital. After 63 days of struggle and little outside help, the Polish Home Army surrendered to the Germans after a ceasefire at 2200 local time yesterday. Resistance groups had used the sewers to travel from one part of the city to another and send messages. Much of the supplies that were dropped by the RAF and US Air Force landed on enemy...

Warsaw commemorates fall of its tragic 1944 Uprising 02.10.2006 October 2nd marks the anniversary of the fall of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. After two months of bloody fighting against prevailing Nazi ground and air units, the Warsaw insurgents capitulated. Following the complete forced evacuation of its inhabitants, Warsaw was burned and turned into a sea of rubble at the revengeful orders of Adolf Hitler. The heavy resistance took the toll of 18 thousand soldiers of the underground Home Army (AK) and 180 thousand civilian lives. Their tragic struggle had been witnessed by the Soviet Red Army standing idly across...

The Polish Home Army has begun a battle to liberate Warsaw, the first European capital to fall to the Germans nearly five years ago. At 1700 local time, the code signal "Tempest" was given and there was a wave of explosions and rifle fire throughout the city. Reports from Poland say the timing of the uprising was chosen for maximum effect as the Germans appeared to be about to withdraw from Warsaw. The German frontline has been forced to retreat over the past few months in the face of a sustained attack from the Red Army, forcing them out of...

BETRAYAL: THE BATTLE FOR WARSAW on The History Channel(R) September 25th from 9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. ET/PT NEW YORK, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The Warsaw Uprising was the largest and perhaps most heroic underground campaign of World War II. It was also one of the most desperate and little known battles of the war. Yet even as the Poles rose up against the Germans in the heart of Warsaw, they were callously betrayed. Not by their enemies but by their allies. They were promised help that never came, so they took matters into their own hands. In the summer...

Warsaw Rising remembered Poles are commemorating the 61st anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, a massive liberation drive against the overwhelming Nazi German forces. The Polish Resistance launched the rising on August 1 1944 with the hope of seizing Warsaw from the Nazis ahead of the Soviet army which was marching westwards, threatening to impose a communist system on Poland. The outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising was recreated at an open air show with, among other things, fierce fighting for Nazi SS barracks in the Wola district. For most Poles, that doomed rising, which cost the lives of 200,000 Varsovians, is...

LP about Warsaw Uprising by Lao Che rock group will gets to music shops today. - These were young people like us. We decided to make a record about the time of moral test - say the musicians. They come from Plock. Age average in this band is twenty something. They played heavy metal and hip-hop. Under the name Lao Che they've been working since 1999. They do not resemble a typical rock band. Before they start writing a song they discuss the vision of new album very long, research the subject thoroughly they intend to speak of. Their first...

his month marks the 60th anniversary of the other Warsaw uprising. Though it is little remembered outside of Poland, the lessons of this terrible battle are worth remembering for a number of reasons in a world where collective action against evil still seems to be a difficult. I am not referring to the Warsaw ghetto uprising. That battle, which began on Passover in 1943, was long over when 16 months later their Polish neighbors rose against the German occupiers on Aug. 1, 1944. In 1943, after a month of hopeless and honorable heroism, the last stand of the doomed and...

A Memory Not Forgotten By M.M. 4 August 2004 An unprecedented three-day commemoration marked the 60th anniversary of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising July 30-Aug. 1. Ceremonies included the opening of the long-awaited Museum of the Uprising. At 5 p.m. sharp Aug. 1, on the anniversary of "W-Hour," when the Warsaw Uprising started 60 years ago, sirens began to wail across the capital. Vehicles and passersby stopped to honor the insurgents. During the 63 days of the uprising, about 18,000 insurrectionists and almost 200,000 civilians were killed; some perished in combat and bombings, others were executed, and still others died of...

Warsaw uprising: How to heal the wounds? Gerhard Schroeder will be the first German Chancellor to attend Poland's commemorations of the Warsaw uprising. Poland's Prime Minister, Marek Belka, is keen for the German Chancellor to dispel the "bad atmosphere" between their two countries on the 60th anniversary of the uprising. The Warsaw uprising against their Nazi occupiers lasted for 63 days and resulted in the deaths of about 200,000 Poles and the total destruction of the city. The Polish resistance believed that Russia, US and UK would provide assistance but very little help arrived. Mr Belka has also said that...

Poland held a minute's remembrance for the 200,000 victims of the failed Warsaw uprising against the Nazi occupation 60 years ago. At 1700 local time, Warsaw came to a standstill to mark the exact hour the city's home army launched its rising. They surrendered 63 days later, having had virtually no help from Poland's US, British and Russian allies. Gerhard Schroeder was at the ceremony, becoming the first German chancellor to attend such an event. His visit was seen as an important gesture in Poland, said the BBC's Adam Easton in Warsaw. Relations between the two countries have been strained...