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Trump heads for the golf course as leaders gather to mark start of WW2

Dominic Raab leads British delegation to the Polish capital, while Vladimir Putin is not invited


Shaun Walker Sun 1 Sep 2019 09.00 BST Last modified on Sun 1 Sep 2019 11.44 BST
theguardian.com

Two days after the attack on Westerplatte and following a Nazi assault on other parts of Poland, British prime minister Neville Chamberlain made his famous radio declaration that “this country is now at war with Germany”. Despite this, little practical assistance was given to Poland, which was crushed within weeks by the Nazis and invaded by the Soviet Union from the east, according to a pact signed by Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin in August 1939 that contained a secret protocol by which the two powers would divide Europe.

Ten years ago in Westerplatte, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, called the treaty a “mistake”, but a recent Russian campaign has sought to rehabilitate the controversial treaty. It has been met with outrage in Poland and elsewhere in central Europe and is one of the reasons why Putin was not invited to Warsaw this year.


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