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Ao.nttir4rrea;\vAa*ir(By United Press)The five year* which Warsaw waited for liberation from the Nazis are but a moment in the. life of a city which has known 40 wars and a dozen revolutions. .Russian, French, Austrian and Prussian armies of occupation trod. Warsaw’s streets. There was an interlude of freedom between World war* I and II and then came the Germans again. The city’s 1,-178,211 Polish, Ukranian and Jew* ish residents became slaves of Heinrich Himmler and his Gestapo. T?he ghetto was-destroyed for daring to. resist the Germans. Thousands of Jews and others were dragged off into forced labor or impressed into the German armies.Many Poles oppose the Russians and Communism as much as they do the Nazis and their regime, but the Poles are accustomed to fight for freedom, with any help they can get, Since 1783, Warsaw, has fought Russian, intrigue. Russia took possession of the town, , but in the next year, during' a bloody partition of Poland, Warsaw was handed to Prussia.Napoleon’s troops occupied i a! Warsaw in 1808, but the city gain- inirCiCil€tibP-hfi'01h.u:ojUed its independence as capital of the independent duchy of Warsaw in 1807.The city never 'retained its freedom for long,. The Austria ns took it over for a few months in 1809 when once more it became independent until 1813 when the Russians took their strongest hold on the town.In 1830, arid again in 1883, the Poles revolted unsuccessfully against the Russian yoke in Warsaw. Revolutionists were executed or banished to Siberia. Hundreds of Russian officials poured into the .city to fill administrative poststfctl:li:sawd(\vti.Illflcand act as teacher* and professors, caThe Russian language was made obligatory in official circles and to some extent even In trade.The name Poland was expunged from official writings and Russian tribunals and administrative institutions were introduced.Warsaw was a great Russian supply base in 1914, but in 1915 a new conqueror entered the nity—the German under the kaiser. Germany made Warsaw the capital of a Polish state which possessed no real power.The Poles came into their own., however, when the German army; broke up in 1918, and held the: city until 1939, when the wehr-macht, with its lightning warf are,'! rolled into the city to _take it in1' a tighter, mtJre bloody grip than even the suffering Poles had everMDqiecorblthlemSiisiIteqt-ttaevw.PCspAn
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Dunkirk Evening Observer
Dunkirk, New York, US
Tue, Aug 01, 1944
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