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[-] [email protected] 26 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Polish resistence efforts also get sidelined in WW2 history, especially work for the enigma machine decoding efforts.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

And if you're in Warsaw, find time to visit the uprising museum.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

that sounds more fun/educational than visiting Auschwitz to be honest. I value the Auschwitz museum existing, but I'm pretty familiar with the horrors of the holocaust, I don't need to see the actual gas chambers, mass graves or medical experiment tools.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

I am not saying you're wrong, but I wonder if your country doesn't teach that bit of history. Here in Western Europe, it is taught that Poles who went on exile to UK brought a copy of Enigma machine with them.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

I don't recall that in the UK lessons on WW2, over 20 years ago.

I'm OLD!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Fun novel.

"The Polish Officer" by Alan Furst.

      https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-polish-officer-alan-furst/8536007?ean=9780375758270&next=t
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