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POLAND: EXPLORING WWII HISTORY IN WARSAW...WHAT A STORY

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Warsaw, Poland

Filmed on location 12.08 to 16.08.2019

We did two walking tours with Free Walkative Tours Warsaw, while in Warsaw. This video was filmed during those wonderful walks.

Warsaw is a city, that has one story to tell. We really enjoyed the city. Four days and 5 nights was not long enough to fully explore the city. It offers great food, lovely people and great lessons in history. I never knew about this part of WWII history, I was educated in the Netherlands..maybe because we were already in the Cold War.

On 01.09.2019, it is 80 years since Nazi Germany invaded Poland.

Poland actually never surrendered. Their government went into exile in London, while the Germans and the Russians destroyed the country.

The Russians invaded on 17.09.1939. The Russians still say that, they liberated the East.

They did not.. Stalin and Hitler made an secret Pact on 23.08.1939 to divide up the country to suit their own needs, and nothing else.

I feel so sorry for the people of the East..it is just terrible, that they have endured over the years from 1939 to 1989- 1994.

The story of the former East Bloc became more and grim as we progressed further and further north.

On times, after my filming..just not knowing how to end it, as it is so terrible what happened.

Warsaw is a city, that has come back from the ashes..literally. It was never the intention of Stalin to rebuild the city.

After the Warsaw uprising on 01.08.1944, as the people could not take anymore. Hilter gave two orders: one to executed all the population and two to destroy the city.

Stalin was ok with that, as he knew he
would take the city and it would become a communist city.

The city had a population of 1.2m in 1939, at the end of the Warsaw Uprising 1,000 were left over. Most hid in the sewage, until it was safe to come out...so after the end of WWII 08.05.1945 people started to return to the city and brick by brick rebuilt it..listen up the end of the video I tell a story our guide told us.

It is a lovely city today, we really enjoyed Warsaw. The city is still building today.

It is a city, that has so much to tell..
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