German Prez Asks Poland Forgiveness for Nazi ‘Tyranny’

Warsaw: German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday asked Poland’s forgiveness for Nazi “tyranny”, 80 years on from the start of World War Two. Steinmeier and other world leaders are in Poland to commemorate the outbreak of the conflict, the BBC reported. Earlier on Sunday, a ceremony was held in the Polish city of Wielun, where the first German bombs fell.

At dawn on September 1, 1939, the German Luftwaffe (air force) bombarded Wielun, a town with no military significance. Thousands of people are estimated to have died in the bombings, designed to sow terror among the civilian population. Steinmeier condemned the “desire to annihilate” that led to the attack. “I bow my head before the Polish victims of Germany’s tyranny. And I ask forgiveness,” Frank-Walter Steinmeier said, speaking in German and Polish. (IANS)

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