The history of Poland in World War II is a read not suitable for sensitive stomachs, especially in certain chapters.<\/p>\n
The atrocities committed by the Germans and the Soviets after the joint invasion of Poland in 1939 seem like a portrait of the darkest corners of the human soul. The evil that was embodied in those crimes has its maximum expression in the Holocaust<\/strong>, the planned extermination of millions of people for being Jews, Poles, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses and members of other minorities. There are also much less well-known crimes of genocide outside Poland.<\/strong> One of the worst was committed by the Germans in Warsaw now 79 years ago: the Wola Massacre<\/strong>, initiated by the Germans on August 5, 1944, four days after the start of the Warsaw Uprising<\/a>.<\/p>\n Two years ago I told you here the story of Wanda Lurie, one of the victims of that massacre<\/a>. This woman was pregnant when the occupants machine-gunned her and her young children<\/strong>. She miraculously survived. I had to summarize her testimony a lot about what happened in that massacre, because some would have been dizzy and nauseated to know everything that this brave woman recounted<\/strong> to accuse the nazi war criminals.<\/p>\n
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