German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday asked Poland’s forgiveness 80 years after Germany’s attack triggered World War II while his Polish counterpart denounced Russia’s recent “imperialist” aggression against its neighbours.Poland suffered some of the worst horrors of World War II: nearly six million Poles died in the conflict that killed more than 50 million people overall.That figure includes the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust, half of them Polish.“I bow before the Polish victims of German tyranny. And I ask your forgiveness,” Steinmeier said at pre-dawn ceremonies in the western Polish city of Wielun where Germany’s first bombs …read more
Source:: The News International
