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Fascinating new book of secret police surveillance photos reveals chilling Big Brother control methods

In one photo, agents spying on American military attaches from the US Embassy in Warsaw snap the officials in a car that has stopped in a forest. Dated 6 April, 1966, the photo is described as being taken during an ‘intelligence reconnaissance’ operation. Beata Bartecka and Łukasz Rusznica, from How To Look Natural in Photos

Compiled as a warning about today’s internet surveillance, the 150 never-before-seen photos cover a wide range of Poland’s communist secret police activities between 1944 and 1989 and reveal the sometimes drastic measures authorities took to keep ‘enemies of the state’ under control.

Firefighters continue battling fire in Kraków city archives

Firefighters in Kraków have been battling a blaze that broke out in the city’s archives for 36 hours.

Delightful ‘little corset’ tiles showcase rescued fragments of Warsaw architecture

The fragments offer precious examples of the capital’s architecture over the centuries through details from door handles to tiles.

‘She escaped from a death camp by hiding under dead bodies:’ UK newspaper readers uncover extraordinary past of local woman known fondly as ‘Polish Anna’

After a local newspaper published a series of photos inviting readers to share their memories of ‘Polish Anna’, no one expected it would set in motion a train of online sleuthing which revealed her shocking wartime ordeal as a slave labourer in Nazi Germany and the destruction of her village in Poland as part of Hitler’s Lebensraum plan to exterminate Poles from the Zamość region.

Forgotten document found hidden in Minsk archive could reveal secrets of ‘Belarusian List’ – an NKVD death list of nearly 4,000 murdered Poles

Described as being a “landmark document”, the Belarusian list which includes the names of 3,870 Poles is considered to be one of the most important sought after documents regarding the Katyn massacre.

Secret messages smuggled out of Majdanek concentration camp handed over to state archives

Written by an AK soldier in the camp the messages provide priceless information on the workings of one of the Nazi’s most notorious facilities.

Poland supports Russian WW2 archive concept - ministry

Poland fully supports Russian leader Vladimir Putin's idea to create a special archive of World War Two-related documents, Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski told PAP on Wednesday.

Secret documents revealing last days of WWII resistance found hidden in family attic where Auschwitz beast lived

The documents which date from January to October 1945 and include hand-drawn maps, intelligence briefings and instructions on how to deal with the advancing Red Army have been called historically important.

Pole decorated by Queen Elizabeth for remembrance of WWII veterans

Małgorzata Goddard, a Polish woman caring for the archives of Polish Veterans of WWII, which are in the possession of the British Ministry of Defence, found herself on a list of people decorated on the occasion the birthday of Queen Elizabeth II, on Saturday.

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