Around the World: Poland
China Daily | Updated: 2008-09-02 07:45
69th anniversary of WWII
Sirens wailed before dawn yesterday across the Polish peninsula where Germany fired the opening shots of World War II 69 years ago, in remembrance of a tragedy that still shapes the nation's identity.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was on hand for the yearly commemoration on the Westerplatte peninsula in the Baltic city of Gdansk, formerly Germany's Danzig. It was there that Adolf Hitler's forces attacked a Polish munitions depot on Sept 1, 1939 - the opening salvo that launched six years of a devastating Nazi occupation.
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