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Poland was the first country to fiirmly resist the brutal expansion of the totalitarian powers that were utterly indifferent to the rights of weaker countries. Poland's armed resistance to German aggression on September 1, 1939, was a turning point in world politics towards tthe Third Reich. Contrary to the hopes of Adolf Hitler, on the third day after the commencement of military operations the German attack on Poland transformed into a world war.
On 23 August 1939, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Third Reich and the Soviet Union, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov, signed a nonaggression treaty in Moscow commonly known as the Ribbentrop-Molotov or Hitler-Stalin Pact. Its most important element was an additional secret protocol agreeing on a division of East Central Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence.
The Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk organizes a unique conference dedicated to the most famous historical battlefields in the World. Its speakers will be guests from Pearl Harbor and Gettysburg (USA), Marathon (Greece), Waterloo (Belgium), Gallipoli (Turkey), Verdun (France) and many others.
On this occasion, the ceremony began at 5:00 PM. The outbreak of the uprising in Warsaw was set for the "W" Hour - August 1, 1944 at 5:00 PM. Despite the difficulties in arming the people ready to fight, on this day Warsaw began a fight for free Poland. On the anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk paid homage to all the fallen Poles.
The Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk launched the third edition of the BohaterON - turn on history! project. Everybody can join the project by sending a specially designed, free greeting card to a participant of the Warsaw Uprising. Postcards are available at the Museum and are issued free of charge.
