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Old 01-09-04, 16:33
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Default 1 September, 1939

Most importantly, today is the 65th anniversary of the start of the 2nd World War.

Poland Recalls Nazi Invasion - The ceremony began to the wailing of sirens on the Westerplatte peninsula in the Baltic port of Gdansk at 4:45 a.m., the exact time that the German ship Schleswig-Holstein shelled the depot and its 182-strong garrison on Sept. 1, 1939, starting the war that left an estimated 50 million dead, including six million European Jews at the hands of the Nazis.

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