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New documents reveal WWII may have started in Silesia and NOT Westerplatte or Wieluń

In the first telegram sent at 7.32 am, bearing the signature A II 9/21, Lieutenant Colonel Zdon from the II division of the Kraków Army wrote: "On the direct outskirts of Rybnik, the contact of our units with the enemy was detected around 3.14am, 30 tanks." Polish Institute and Museum Gen. Sikorski in London

Discovered in the archives of the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum in London,  the two deciphered telegrams show reports by Polish army units that the German army had crossed the Polish border on the outskirts of Rybnik alongside a large group of German tanks an hour earlier than attacks on Wieluń and Westerplatte.

Parliament email accounts also hacked in recent cyber attack

Poland’s Internal Security Agency has determined that the hacker campaign dubbed “Ghostwriter” had also penetrated the email accounts of MPs, a spokesman for the Polish security services chief said on Friday.

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Poczta Polska calls time on the telegram. Stop.

Once Poles sent 20 million telegrams a year but now the numbers don’t justify the service.

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