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Love and Betrayal in WWII: The true story of a doomed love affair

Claudia and Hilarius Haussler next to the monument they built in memory of murdered Pole, Stefan Duda. Thomas Muggenthaler

An extraordinary tale of doomed love between a WWII Polish prisoner and a pretty, young German girl has emerged out of a small village in southern Germany.

Poland calls for return of important war crimes documents

Poland has asked Germany to return tens of thousands of documents relating to war crimes committed by the Nazis and the rescue of Jews by Poles.

Newspaper experiment shows shocking anti-Semitism on German streets

An experiment with an Israeli flag has revealed shocking levels of anti-Semitism in Germany. 

Germans deliberately targeted civilian sites in 1939 Siege of Warsaw, new WWII documents reveal

Newly discovered “secret” Nazi files reveal that the Germans may have deliberately targeted hospitals and other civilian institutions as part of a methodical bombing of Warsaw in 1939 aimed at causing death and panic.

German theatre offers free seats to anyone wearing swastika

A German theatre is under fire for offering free entry to people wearing Swastika armbands to a play called Mein Kampf – and making those who pay for entry wear the Star of David.

PM thanks US President for his words on Poland’s defence spending

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki thanked US president Donald Trump for his words, on Friday, which praised Poland for paying even more for defence spending than it was obliged to. President Trump stressed that this is valued by the US.

Ravensbruck testimonies a priceless gift for future generations

Testimonies by former inmates of the Ravensbruck Nazi-German concentration camp for women are a priceless gift for future generations, First Lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda said on Sunday at the camp's memorial site in Brandenburg, eastern Germany.

PM Morawiecki staunchly defends Poland's stand on Nord Stream 2 - spokesperson

Poland's stand on Nord Stream 2 remains unchanged, government spokesperson Joanna Kopcinska said Tuesday commenting on talks between Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki and German Chancellor Angel Merkel in Warsaw on Monday.

Polish-German co-operation necessary for Europe - Polish PM

Co-operation between Poland and Germany is necessary to ensure very good co-operation in Europe in the context of the new EU agenda, Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki told a joint press conference with the German chancellor in Warsaw.

Polish-German economic ties are very close, Chancellor Merkel says

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel said that economic ties between Poland and Germany are very close, after hosting the Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in Berlin on Friday.

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Top 5 articles:

  • Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born
  • It’s official! Kraków is the best place in Europe for food, says European Academy of Gastronomy
  • Poland in COVID-19 LOCKDOWN! PM orders bars, restaurants, shopping centres and borders closed - and cancels ALL flights
  • Villager finds stash of 17th-century coins after falling off his bike while looking for mushrooms
  • The systematic massacre of all children under 10 will forever be a stain on humanity, says TFN’s Stuart Dowell
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Song and dance group revives unique traditions of Poland’s Lemko culture

Historically from the Beskid and Pieniny highlands around Beskid Sądecki, Beskid Niski and parts of the Pienin mountains, the Lemkos were displaced from their native lands in 1947 and resettled in Western Poland as part of ‘Operation Vistula’, the Communist authority’s forced resettlement of several Polish minorities from the south-east of post-war Poland to the reclaimed territories in the west of the country.

The first report:

  • Poland's recovery plan to be ready by end-April
  • Poland considering purchase of Chinese-made vaccine
  • Polish State Treasury debt at EUR 242.7 bln in January
  • Poland to allocate EUR 154.8 million for Rare Diseases Plan
  • Polish companies to receive nearly EUR 1.6 bln from anti-crisis package

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‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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