All over Poland today ceremonies will take place marking the memory of the beginning of World War II when the Nazis fired the first shots into the Westerplatte garrison on the Baltic coast.

On Sept. 1 1939, at about 4:50 a.m, a German battleship (the Schleswig-Holstein) on a courtesy visit to the Polish harbour at the Free City of Danzig (now Gdansk) opened fire without warning on the Polish garrison of Westerplatte.

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