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- LETTERS, Page 10WORLD WAR II
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- On Sept. 1, 1939, I was a military reservist in Warsaw,
- digging antiaircraft ditches along the Vistula River. On Sunday
- Sept. 3 I stood in front of the British embassy with a crowd of
- other Poles, singing for joy at the announcement that Britain
- had just declared war on Germany. On Sept. 6 I left Warsaw on
- foot. I marched east along roads that were littered with bodies,
- dead horses and bombed-out vehicles, until Sept. 17, when I was
- "liberated" by the invading Red Army. Your description could not
- have been more accurate (WORLD WAR II, Aug. 28). After 50 years,
- I found myself reliving those events again.
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- Jack Zawid Atlantic City
-
- Having been born in Warsaw, I was particularly interested
- in your mention of the Warsaw radio station's playing a Chopin
- polonaise as a morale booster during the battle for the city.
- That station's musical motif had been recorded by my father a
- few years previously, when he was a member of the Warsaw
- Philharmonic. Our family left Poland in 1936, when my father was
- engaged by the Boston Symphony. We were among the lucky ones.
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- Walter Shields Torrance, Calif.
-
- It is important to note that the Germans approved of Hitler
- and gave him great support. Without them the systematic
- elimination of millions of Jews would not have been possible.
- It is sad that we do not seem to have learned anything after
- this horrible war in which 6 million Germans and Austrians died.
- How else to explain the resurgence of extremists on the far
- right in our country?
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- Johannes Lohre Darfeld, West Germany
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- To read about Nazi Germany is to revisit a demented period.
- As terrible as the stories are, they are necessary to remind us
- of the horrors. We must never forget, or we risk having the
- torch of peace extinguished once more. It flickered and went out
- 50 years ago. Never forget. Never again.
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- Edward B. Ryder IV Centerport, N.Y.
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