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I sit in one of the dives
\nOn Fifty-second Street
\nUncertain and afraid
\nAs the clever hopes expire
\nOf a low dishonest decade:
\nWaves of anger and fear
\nCirculate over the bright
\nAnd darkened lands of the earth,
\nObsessing our private lives;
\nThe unmentionable odour of death
\nOffends the September night.
\n— W.H. Auden, “September 1, 1939<\/a>”<\/p>\n

Today’s the 65th anniversary of the German invasion of Poland<\/a>, the formal beginning of WWII. France and Britain declared war on September 3. The Soviets followed the Nazis in on September 17.<\/p>\n

Organized Polish resistance ended on October 6, 1939. Some 100,000 Polish soldiers would escape to form the Free Polish Brigade in England, where they would fight in the air during the Battle of Britain and on land after the Normandy invasion.
\nThe Nazis appointed former SA stormtrooper Hans Frank to Gauleiter <\/em>(Governor General) of Poland. Under his direction over 6,000,000 Poles died, including 3,000,000 Jews.
\nAs Germany was near collapse in 1945, most of the forced laborers in Germany were French. There were no longer enough Poles left alive to feed Germany\u2019s slave labor requirements.<\/p>\n

(via Cronaca<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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