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🗓️ 6 January 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Towards the end of World War Two in Europe, Polish civilians suffered terribly at the hands of retreating German troops. But many never received any reparations for what they’d been through. Kevin Connolly has been speaking to one survivor who was a child in those final brutal days of the war in Europe.
Photo: Undated image of Nazi soldiers travelling by motorcycle and car stop to watch a Polish village burn to the ground. (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images)
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1:29.6 | against German and Soviet partition in 1939 then continued resistance by Polish armies overseas. |
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2:01.9 | By 1944 in the East, the Germans were retreating from the Russians and committing atrocities to match |
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