Their remains were exhumed earlier this year following a diplomatic breakthrough between Kyiv and Warsaw.
Their remains were exhumed earlier this year following a diplomatic breakthrough between Kyiv and Warsaw.
Ernest Wilimowski died in Germany in 1997, having never able to return after the war to Poland, where he was widely regarded as a traitor.
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The owner could face jail for seeking to sell the almost 300 files.
They were killed during the defence of Westerplatte, as the German invasion began.
Kaczyński says that Poland deserves war reparations not only from Germany, but also from Russia.
Russia’s president is attempting to reintroduce “Stalin’s historical narrative”, says the Polish foreign ministry.
The Polish government has accused Putin of reviving “Stalinist propaganda”.
Leading figures from SLD are accused of “falsifying Polish history” by perpetuating the “Soviet narrative” that Poland was liberated by the Red Army.