..the bodies just laying behind them of those who had already faced the death squad...

...yeah I keep looking at the ‘laughing’ one and it’s obviously just the angle of it all..?..but yeah, it really does set the thoughts in motion ...the guy in the white shirt just looks so resigned...so lifeless already..?..

During the occupation germans in larger Polish cities would swoop on an area and cut off all escape points and then herd people, passersby and residents into lorries and ship them to concentration camps. All at random and without any notice or excuse.
So you could simply go out one day and never return

He could be laughing hysterically or barring his teeth in anguish, impossible to tell

and polish officers being taken by the sovjets and being executed in cold blood

am i correct?

the memorial for this btw, was set to be visited some years back by the late then president Lech Kaczynski but he and many polish staff died in a plane crash en route towards that, also a very sad moment for poland, just people who were on their way to remember fallen polish officers during WW2

...almost one fifth of a population of people slaughtered, I believe...an unspeakable war crime ..it’s impossible to imagine the terror those people lived through daily...

...that’s the thing with images, they speak so many different things...

Yes, the Katyn Massacre.

Germans did the same. First thing they did is to round up the elites as they called it so university professors, artists, politicians etc and either kill them straightaway or ship to concentration camps.
They called it decapitation of the nation, removing all intelligentsia. Poles were destined to be either germanised (those looking Aryan) or turned into a slave workforce and stopped from breeding.

The Warsaw Uprising is my favourite episode in the whole sorry story.
Unimaginably tragic and romantic. The flower of Warsaw youth fighting for their city and holding on for two months hoping the Russians already just across the river would help.
But Stalin preferred to wait and let germans squash them bc he didnt want patriotic Poles to succeed but install his communist puppets instead.
Then germans raised Warsaw to the ground in revenge and expelled its population.
Only then the Soviets took the city.

https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/photos...rt=mostpopular

...some incredibly powerful images of The Warsaw Uprising...I would want to post far too many in the thread, which would be hijacking it a bit...if you have time some time, maybe look through, TS..

Thank you:love:

September 10, 1939, from Wikipedia,

"The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss of a submarine in the war."

"Canada declares war on Germany, joining the Allies: Poland, France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia."

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75th anniversary of Operation Market Garden

September 14, 1939, from Wikipedia,

"The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ORP Orzeł in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia."

The Soviets shamelessly took advantage.
Bet they don't talk about that when commemorating the war.

September 17, 1939, from Wikipedia,

"The Soviet invasion of Poland begins."

"German submarine U-29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous."

September 18, 1939, from Wikipedia,

"The Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania."

"The radio show Germany Calling begins transmitting Nazi propaganda."

September 19, 1939, from Wikipedia,

"The Battle of Kępa Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged."