Polish patriotism.Warsaw--Sixty years ago, at 5 p.m. on August 1, 1944, sirens Sirens with song, bird-women lure sailors to death. [Gk. Myth.: Odyssey] See : Enchantment sirens their singing so sweet, it lured sailors to their death. [Gk. Myth.: Hamilton, 48] See : Singer sounded across Warsaw, Poland, signalling the beginning of the Polish uprising against Nazi Germany. The 63-day battle against Nazi troops by Poland's outmanned Home Army resistance movement included women and children. With Soviet troops just outside Warsaw and Allied forces advancing eastward, the Germans relentlessly crushed the 80,000-strong resistance fighters. Alongside the young Polish Christians were a few of the Polish Jews Note: Names that cannot be confirmed in Wikipedia database nor through given sources are subject to removal. If you would like to add a new name please consider writing about the person first. who had fought the Germans during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April 19–May 16, 1943) Revolt by Polish Jews under Nazi occupation against deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp. By July 1942 the Nazis had herded 500,000 Jews from surrounding areas into the ghetto in Warsaw. of 1943. But unknown to the Polish fighters, Churchill and Roosevelt had already handed over Polish lands to the Soviets. The Soviet Red Army did nothing to help the Polish fighters and even went so far as to refuse to allow Allied planes to refuel re·fu·el v. re·fu·eled also re·fu·elled, re·fu·el·ing also re·fu·el·ling, re·fu·els also re·fu·els v.tr. To supply again with fuel. v.intr. at Soviet airfields in order to airlift needed supplies. By the end of the failed uprising, close to 250,000 people had been killed and the city of Warsaw was in ruins. This August, marking the 60th anniversary of that revolt REVOLT, crim. law. The act of congress of April 30, 1790, s. 8, 1 Story's L. U. S. 84, punishes with death any seaman who shall lay violent hands upon his commander, thereby to hinder or prevent his fighting in defence of his ship, or goods committed to his trust, or shall make a revolt , German president Gerhard Schroeder, in a ceremony in Warsaw, expressed shame on behalf of the German people for the "immeasurable suffering" inflicted on the Polish people. Although Polish president Alexsander Kwasniewski welcomed Schroeder as "a representative of a friendly and close nation, as an ally and a partner," some Polish people expressed their displeasure at German involvement in their remembrance ceremonies. |
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