80 Years After Germany's Invasion Of Poland, A Look At World War II's Toll On The Country

The German battleship Schleswig-Holstein in Danzig, Poland, on Sept. 1, 1939.

Last Sunday, on the anniversary of the war's outbreak, somber ceremonies were held across the country. Speakers included Germany's president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier. He said Germany would never forget the atrocities committed under Nazi rule.A uniformed Polish official comforts a boy whose mother was killed in an air raid on Warsaw, September 1939. The boy himself was in the wreckage for 12 hours before rescue crews liberated him.

Steel-helmeted, uniformed Polish women march through the streets of Warsaw to aid in defense of their capital after German troops had started their invasion of Poland, Sept. 16, 1939. "Poland was always on the agenda. It was also that Poland was reborn in 1918 after the end of the First World War, when the Germans and the Russians and the Austrians all collapsed, and the very existence of Poland in the interwar period was seen as it was almost personification of the Treaty of Versailles.

Soviet Union Premier Josef Stalin, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sit at the Teheran Conference in the capital of Persia, Iran, on Nov. 28, 1943. "Even Auschwitz, when it's first established in 1940, is established as a concentration camp for Poles, and it only really evolves into that sort of function that we know so well, that hideous function of extermination, later on in its life. So absolutely, there are huge numbers of gentile Poles [who were] also in the concentration camps on Polish soil and elsewhere.

hereandnow An honorable apology by the current leader of the country responsible for starting WWII in Europe, resulting in tens of millions of deaths including the Holocaust. Trump didn’t even know the Poles were the first major resistors to the Nazis and home to numerous Jews who perished.

hereandnow Humility and grace

hereandnow Congratulations to Poland. Doing some really great things 80 years ago

hereandnow That’s beautiful 🖤

hereandnow A little more appropriate than 'Congratulations'

hereandnow As a half Pole- it’s time to breath and move forward. Leave negativity behind

hereandnow Cheeto Mussolini congratulated them.

hereandnow Trump: I want to congratulate Poland. I have a lot of polish friends in America.

hereandnow THE LEFTS GODS

hereandnow The Poles evened the score in Normandy epic tank battle in Falaise crushed the Krauts plus along with RAF liberated Le Havre other cities! German citizens failed and fucked their own country!

hereandnow There is no any sorry or excuse from America government side about HIROSHIMA_DISASTER

hereandnow And trump bowed his head, went into his backswing and said, “Fore.”

hereandnow Terrible the Carnage of WW2 Don't forget The Great War😪😪

hereandnow That is an appropriate remark President Trump POTUS

hereandnow If Russia as a state existed, Russian president would have repeated it word for word.

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