Theo Young-Smith

I don't really know. I don't think I've ever seen you. I don't really know how to reply to that. So...

I don't really know. I don't think I've ever seen you. I don't really know how to reply to that. So...

I don't really know. I don't think I've ever seen you. I don't really know how to reply to that. So...

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Yes, it's an incredibly bleak story, Tom, and it is an amazing speech. Very moving to, even to hear you reading it out, you have a bit of a kind of lump in your throat, the kind of idea of Warsaw reaching the apotheosis of its glory in circumstances of the most terrible horror. Four days after that speech, after Staszinski gave that speech, the city surrendered.

Yes, it's an incredibly bleak story, Tom, and it is an amazing speech. Very moving to, even to hear you reading it out, you have a bit of a kind of lump in your throat, the kind of idea of Warsaw reaching the apotheosis of its glory in circumstances of the most terrible horror. Four days after that speech, after Staszinski gave that speech, the city surrendered.

Yes, it's an incredibly bleak story, Tom, and it is an amazing speech. Very moving to, even to hear you reading it out, you have a bit of a kind of lump in your throat, the kind of idea of Warsaw reaching the apotheosis of its glory in circumstances of the most terrible horror. Four days after that speech, after Staszinski gave that speech, the city surrendered.

He ended up being arrested by the Gestapo. And he vanished. He was never seen again. It's not clear whether he was shot in Warsaw or whether he was taken to a concentration camp and murdered. If you go to Warsaw, there are loads of monuments to him, the streets named after him and things. And at the end of the 20th century, he was voted the Varsovian of the century.

He ended up being arrested by the Gestapo. And he vanished. He was never seen again. It's not clear whether he was shot in Warsaw or whether he was taken to a concentration camp and murdered. If you go to Warsaw, there are loads of monuments to him, the streets named after him and things. And at the end of the 20th century, he was voted the Varsovian of the century.

He ended up being arrested by the Gestapo. And he vanished. He was never seen again. It's not clear whether he was shot in Warsaw or whether he was taken to a concentration camp and murdered. If you go to Warsaw, there are loads of monuments to him, the streets named after him and things. And at the end of the 20th century, he was voted the Varsovian of the century.

So his memory, certainly in Poland, definitely lives on. But I guess it would be wrong for us to pretend that this episode is going to be anything other than quite a dark story. I mean, unbelievably bleak. So we ended last time with the war breaking out, the first shots of the war being fired in Danzig. after these false flag incidents on the border.

So his memory, certainly in Poland, definitely lives on. But I guess it would be wrong for us to pretend that this episode is going to be anything other than quite a dark story. I mean, unbelievably bleak. So we ended last time with the war breaking out, the first shots of the war being fired in Danzig. after these false flag incidents on the border.

So his memory, certainly in Poland, definitely lives on. But I guess it would be wrong for us to pretend that this episode is going to be anything other than quite a dark story. I mean, unbelievably bleak. So we ended last time with the war breaking out, the first shots of the war being fired in Danzig. after these false flag incidents on the border.

So 4.45, Saturday the 1st of September, the German battleship, the Schleswig-Holstein, opening fire on the Polish munitions depot on the Westerplatte Peninsula and the harbour. And at the same time, the German police in Danzig and the SS launched an attack on the Polish post office in the city, which they saw had long seen as a standing affront.

So 4.45, Saturday the 1st of September, the German battleship, the Schleswig-Holstein, opening fire on the Polish munitions depot on the Westerplatte Peninsula and the harbour. And at the same time, the German police in Danzig and the SS launched an attack on the Polish post office in the city, which they saw had long seen as a standing affront.