On October 2, 1944, the 63-day Warsaw Uprising ended as the Polish freedom fighters, running low on food and ammunition and left all alone in their struggle, surrendered to the better armed Nazi German occupiers.
At the end of last week, a group of Poland-based NATO soldiers, guided by Polish Culture and National Heritage Minister Piotr Gliński, visited the Warsaw Rising Museum to commemorate the 79th anniversary of that heroic act of resistance.
“This is the best way to foster historical knowledge and awareness of the country,” Gliński told reporters.
“Americans, in general, are not familiar with European history, yet they play a very important geopolitical role here as global peacekeepers,” he added.
Radio Poland's Michał Owczarek reports...
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