German state dignitaries join Poland's outbreak of World War II anniversary

Wolfgang Thierse, the Speaker of the German Bundestag and Prime Minister Bernhard Vogel of the Turingen Land participated in the official events marking the 63rd anniversary of the outbreak of World War II in Poland. "What seemed unimaginable now is obvious," said President Aleksander K wasniewski. "We, the Polish people, will always remember German gestures and words, which are the milestones on the road of reconciliation," said K wasniewski. Thierse put flowers on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and met with war veterans and Polish and German youths. He said that the fault of Germany cannot be forgotten, because even if there is no one left to blame, responsibility still remains. At the same time in Mikolajki (northern Poland) Prime Ministers Leszek Miller and Bernard Vogel talked about P olish-German relations and met with the pupils of a school named after Marion von Dönhoff, one of the most ardent spokesmen for Polish-German reconciliation. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, A3; Zycie, p. 4) A.D.