Sirens wailed across Poland’s capital on Tuesday as the country marked the 73rd anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, a doomed revolt against the occupying Germans during World War II.
Beautiful: Poland remembers the Warsaw uprising 1-8-1944. All people stand still for a minute. #PowstanieWarszawskie pic.twitter.com/pzFCAkbe6m
— Voice of Europe (@V_of_Europe) August 1, 2017
As well as the annual minute of stillness Legia Warsaw fans produced a graphic tifo ahead of their teams game against FC Astana tonight.
The picture depicted a German soldier with a gun to a child’s head with the caption “During the Warsaw uprising Germans killed 160,000 people. Thousands of them were children.”
The Warsaw Uprising broke out August 1, 1944, with the Polish underground taking up arms against the powerful Nazi forces. They held out for 63 days before the Germans crushed the revolt.
The Germans suppressed the rebellion brutally, destroying most of Warsaw and killing around 200,000 people, most of them civilians.