Report: Poland's new premier proposes World War II museum in Gdansk
The new Polish prime minister suggested that a World War II museum be set up in Poland, presenting it in remarks published Monday as an alternative to German plans to commemorate people displaced during and after the war.
Donald Tusk made the proposal for a museum in Gdansk a day before his first visit to Germany since taking office — a trip meant to help improve relations that cooled under his nationalist predecessor, Jaroslaw Kaczynski.
Tusk argued that Gdansk, a port city in northern Poland, would represent well "all the dimensions of this tragic world war," noting that the war began in the region "and in a sense also ended here," with the founding of the anti-communist Solidarity movement in 1980.
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Donald Tusk made the proposal for a museum in Gdansk a day before his first visit to Germany since taking office — a trip meant to help improve relations that cooled under his nationalist predecessor, Jaroslaw Kaczynski.
Tusk argued that Gdansk, a port city in northern Poland, would represent well "all the dimensions of this tragic world war," noting that the war began in the region "and in a sense also ended here," with the founding of the anti-communist Solidarity movement in 1980.