tortugo
03.06.04, 17:01
to dostalem w mailu, przekazuje bo moze byc warte obejrzenia. Czytac dalej
(sorki, ale w lengwidzu).
> Please note below that on the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landing,
> CNN will air special programming on the Polish resistance, June 6 at
> 8:00pm and 11:pm. It re-airs on Saturday, June 12 again at 8:00 &
> 11:00pm.
>
> Donata
> Polish Cultural Foundation
>
> Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 14:47:24 EDT
> A TIME WARNER COMPANY News Release
> For Release: May 12, 2004
> CNN Presents Remembers Forgotten Soldiers of WWII Rare Footage,
> Recollections Highlight Documentary about Polish Revolt Against Nazi
> Occupation on the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landing, CNN premieres
> a groundbreaking documentary on a little-known chapter in the war.
> "Warsaw Rising: The Forgotten Soldiers of World War II" tells the
> story of the Polish resistance and its 63-day battle against the
> Nazis, a battle fought while the Western world celebrated the
> successful Allied landings at Normandy.
> Through interviews with survivors and use of rarely seen footage
> filmed by the Underground Army, CNN Presents offers an unflinching
> look at how a country known as the "first ally" was abandoned in its
> hour of need.
> "Warsaw Rising" airs on Sunday, June 6, at 8 p.m.
> and 11 p.m. (ET) in
> conjunction with a special edition of People in the News that features
> four U.S. veterans who lived through the D-Day landing.
> People in the News'
> "D-Day:
> a Call to Courage" airs Sunday, June 6, at 7 p.m.
> (ET). "Warsaw Rising" re-
> airs on Saturday, June 12, at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m.
> (ET).
> In the summer of 1944, an underground army of ordinary citizens in
> Warsaw rose up against their Nazi occupiers in the belief that the
> D-Day invasion in the west and Soviet advances in the east gave them a
> chance for freedom.
> Underground fighters, many of them teenagers, fought with homemade
> weapons against a heavily fortified German army.
> They believed the fight would last for only the few days until the
> Allies could come to their aid. Instead, they fought for 63 days
> alone.
> "There was a sense of frustration and injustice that was quite, quite
> strong,"
> said Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor, whose
> relatives lived through the Nazi occupation in Poland.
> When the Poles most needed Allied help, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin
> refused to let his troops cross the Vistula River to aid the Poles in
> liberating Warsaw. And Poland's other allies, the United States and
> England, were reluctant to force the issue with Stalin. Unknown to
> Polish leaders and citizens at the time, Franklin Roosevelt and
> Winston Churchill had struck a deal with Stalin, ceding him control
> over Central Europe in return for his help fighting the Germans.
> In the end, the Nazis slaughtered the Polish resistance and razed
> Warsaw.
> More than 200,000 people died. Half a million were driven out of the
> city.
> More than three quarters of the Underground Army had perished; many of
> the survivors ended up in Soviet prisons. Yet the story of this tragic
> loss received little attention.
> "The story of the Warsaw Rising was largely forgotten," said Kathy
> Slobogin, managing editor of CNN Presents. "For the Allies it was an
> embarrassment, and for the Soviets it was inconvenient. The Allies
> didn't even invite Underground soldiers to the post-war victory
> parades. There was no official monument to the fighters in Warsaw
> until 1989.
> Through 'Warsaw Rising,'
> we are hopeful the world will start to remember."
> In the words of those who survived it, "Warsaw Rising" relates
> remarkable stories of heroism and survival against the odds. A young
> tank commander captures a German tank and with it liberates a
> concentration camp, saving the lives of several hundred Jews slated
> for death.
> An Underground soldier
> and a female Underground courier recount the tale of their 20-hour
> trek through the sewers below the streets of Warsaw, walking through a
> river of human waste to escape the Nazis overhead.
> The survivors of this little-known tragedy of the war finally tell
> their story.
> "The passion with which we participated in all those things was
> probably difficult to understand for people who never lost freedom,"
> said Christine Jaroscewicz, a 19-year-old fighter at the time. "We had
> this terrific faith we were going to be free."
> "Warsaw Rising: The Forgotten Soldiers of World War II" was reported
> by CNN correspondent David Ensor and produced by Kathy Slobogin. Brian
> Rokus was field producer. Cliff Hackel was the editor.
>
>
