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Poland honors fighters, victims of Warsaw's 1944 revoltBy MONIKA SCISLOWSKA | Associated PressWARSAW, Poland –World War II veterans, Warsaw residents and the leaders of Poland joined anniversary ceremonies Wednesday honoring the fighters and victims of the city's ill-fated 1944 revolt against the Nazi occupation.President Andrzej Duda laid a wreath at a memorial in Wola district, where German forces killed tens of thousands of civilians in early August 1944, in retaliation for the revolt organized by Poland's clandestine resistance movement, the Home Army."We pay homage not only to the fighters but also to those who were brutally murdered by the German forces — and the only reason was that they were Poles," Duda said.Read more at: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/08/01/poland-honors-fighters-victims-warsaws-1944-revolt.html