Leaders Mark Start of the Slaughter ; Merkel Tells of Mourning and Reconciliation
The Journal › September 02, 2009
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WORLD leaders gathered in Poland yesterday to mark the 70th anniversary of the start of the Second World War.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband joined the likes of German chancellor Angela Merkel (pictured), Polish president Lech Kaczynski and Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin for the commemoration service in Gdansk.See the full content of this document
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Leaders Mark Start of the Slaughter ; Merkel Tells of Mourning and Reconciliation
The city is near the Westerplatte peninsula, where the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein shelled a tiny Polish military outpost on September 1, 1939.
They were ...See the full content of this document
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