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Polish President Andrzej Duda is due early on Sunday morning to remember Germany’s invasion of his country 85 years ago in the small town of Wieluń. Also early Sunday morning, Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz plans to pay tribute to the Polish soldiers who fell on the Westerplatte peninsula near the city of Gdańsk, then known as Danzig. Germany’s invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, is considered the beginning of World War II. Even before the shelling of the Westerplatte, the small town of Wieluń near the then German-Polish border was bombed by the German Luftwaffe. Estimates sug…

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