Crime

German parliament says “Ja” to Polish war memorial

Voting on the matter on Friday, German parliamentarians agreed that the German occupation of Poland was “unique in its cruelty” and that for the duration of WWII, “Poland became the cemetery of European civilization”. Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and Wilhelm Brasse

The Berlin memorial will be the first in the city dedicated to a single nation and will pay tribute to the Poles killed during WWII.

‘Art heist of the century’ inspires new film - but the facts are far more compelling than the fiction

The thief who walked out of Poznań’s National Museum with the seven-million-euro masterpiece and the only Monet in Poland under his jacket, would remain at large for 10 years. With a new film inspired by the true life events of 20 years ago now out, TFN’s Stuart Dowell looks back at the bizarre case of what has been described as the art heist of the century.

Gunned down and buried alive. Polish body hunters find WWII boy hero

The seven-year-old child was trying to warn his parents of approaching German troops when he was gunned down and later buried alive.

Former SS guard found guilty of mass murder

The court ruled that the 93-year-old “took part in the whole mass murder, helping your commanders, watching people die of hunger, disease and entering the crematorium from which they never left. You had to see the corpses because the corpses lay everywhere.”

New ‘walkabout’ audio guides for foreigners reveal key locations of Warsaw Uprising

Prepared by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Warsaw Rising Museum the ten podcasts use geolocation technology to describe the history of key Uprising places which have since disappeared from the map.

Polish former transport minister placed under arrest for 3 months

Poland's former Transport Minister Sławomir Nowak will remain in custody for the next three months, a Warsaw court decided on Wednesday.

WANTED! Hunt gets underway for unnamed FEMALE war criminal in Germany

The identity of the 93-year-old former female concentration camp guard is being withheld from the public so that she does not go in to hiding as Poland’s IPN issues a European Arrest Warrant.

Hero anti-terror dog gets new LEASH of life after retiring from long arm of the PAW

After seven years on the force, the nine-year-old Dutch Shepherd who helped bring down some of Poland’s most dangerous crooks, including drug dealers, murderers and organised crime mobsters, is now looking forward to a slower pace of life.

American woman says she is Pole who went missing 26 years ago after being kidnapped and SOLD by her dad

Monika Bielawska was one-years-old when she disappeared from outside a pharmacy in Legnica. Now, a 27-year-old American woman searching for her real parents after discovering she was adopted says SHE is Monika.

New book shines light on forgotten Polish Nazi hunter who brought Auschwitz commandant to trial

TFN talks to Filip Gańczak, author of a history of Jan Sehn, the man who prosecuted some of history’s most infamous Nazis.

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