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Scouts in the Warsaw Uprising
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Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Jul 28, 2015
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Podcast episode
Description
On 1 August 1944, the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation of Poland began. Hundreds of thousands of people died during the fighting and Poland's capital was almost completely destroyed. Among the underground fighters were children, many of them members of the Scout movement. Andrzej Slawinsky was one of them.
(Photo: Insurgents on the streets of Warsaw, 1944. Credit: HO/AFP/Getty Images)
(Photo: Insurgents on the streets of Warsaw, 1944. Credit: HO/AFP/Getty Images)
Released:
Jul 28, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
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