Any apologies about Sikorski's 'murder'?

SOne of the Second World War's most enduring conspiracy theories has been laid to rest after Polish investigators probing the mysterious death of the country's wartime leader, General Wladyslaw Sikorski, concluded that there was no evidence of foul play when he died in a plane crash.

Forensic experts in the Polish city of Krakow said that all the evidence from a post mortem on the general's remains indicated that he had died from "trauma to internal organs caused by an accident".

Investigators also revealed that the general had a fractured eye socket, broken ribs, a shattered thigh bone, and that they had found a splinter of wood embedded in his skull.

They added that they had discovered no evidence of injuries sustained before the Polish leader's RAF Liberator plunged into the sea, just seconds after taking off from Gibraltar in July in 1943.

The lack of evidence of foul play scotches enduring and colourful conspiracy theories that Gen Sikorski had died at the hands of Russian, or even British, agents, who may have strangled or shot him before the Liberator took off.

With a cast list including Stalin, Churchill, the KGB spy Kim Philby and the actor Anthony Quayle, the conspiracy theories had shown such persistence that last year Poland launched a criminal investigation into the accident in attempt to discover the truth.

We may finally know the truth about how our General died, and how he was probably betrayed by our British and American 'allies.'

Everybody knows that British are what they are. They needed Poles they were nice they didn't need Sikorski they have killed him.

That proves nothing as It is unknown If the crash was an accident or not.

That proves nothing as It is unknown If the crash was an accident or not.

Besides... ugly crea... If you had to apologize for the racist sh*t you spread here that would have to take you whole days.

I agree. It only proves that Sikorski wasn't murdered prior to being in the plane not that the plane crash itself was not sabotage.

Do explain how it is racist to point out that not all Poles are wonderfully nice people.

You are pointing MUCH more than that.

I don't think they did need sabotage to make planes crash....lot's of planes crashed and people died...famous ones too....

anti-semitic

That proves nothing as It is unknown

You're obviously a troll, you post here most of the time in an anti-polish fashion, its bloody clear that you do not like us or our country so why post here ?

i'm curious why post on a forum belonging to the people you dislike or maybe even hate ?

who cares???

A polish girl denied him ?

I don't understand why Harry bothers with his"British did help Poland" attitude.

Considering the whole nation firmly believes in the western betrayal idea i think it might hold some merit.

You're obviously a troll, you post here most of the time in an anti-polish fashion, its bloody clear that you do not like us or our country so why post here ?

i'm curious why post on a forum belonging to the people you dislike or maybe even hate ?

Probably because Britain did help Poland. Britain didn't just stab her ally in the back and steal half her country (as Poland had done to her ally in the war she had most recently fought).

One might venture to observe that in 1943 the whole German nation firmly believed that Jews were untermenschen and so you think that the idea might hold some merit, but I wouldn't care to venture that observation myself.

Somebody should post the truth now and again, even if the society doesn't want to face up to that particular truth.

if UK ever discloses the documents regarding the case.

Yeah? what happened there?.

I have heard this story many times about Sikorski being assassinated in the helicopter in Gibraltar.
Then these documents were meant to be released by Britain after fifty years but they weren't, why not?.

I do, the guy goes out of his way to smear all things polish in shit, i'm curious as to why ? Maybe a Pole got his job ? A polish girl denied him ?

Probably because Britain did help Poland. Britain didn't just stab her ally in the back and steal half her country (as Poland had done to her ally in the war she had most recently fought).

because it may be good for you to see that poland isn't all that? just a though.

when england finally decided that it ought to then the americans didn't help.

Probably because Britain did help Poland.

England or western allies in general never helped Poland during WW 2 unless we're talking about equiping polish units which was really just helping themselves, apart from that Poland never received any help whatsoever.

In but one example...you obviously do not know of Britain's S.O.E help for Poland in training of cichociemni special force paratroops of the Polish underground army

Britain also gave safe haven for the Polish-government-in-exile which it did not have to.

Remembering also that Hitler did not want a war with Britain at all....Hitler admired the British..a small nation which had built and administered a vast empire which is what the Nazis wanted for tehmselves in Eastern Europe and Europea Russia.

The fact is the Nazis made numerous advances for a peace with Britain which it declined in order to support its ally Poland

In fact one could argue that the Polish-government-in-exile did not help Poland as it was divided by factional in-fighting of political self-interest which ultimately led to its own abandonment by the western allies.

Wait you mean a training camp with a few shacks is helping Poland ?

England turned Hitlers peace offer down because they understood that once Russia is destroyed there will be nothing stoping Hitler from hanging a swastika from Buckingham Palace, Hitler claimed he didnt want war with Britain but lets face it Nazi regime needed war to roll and guess who's the natural enemy once Russia is gone ?

Divided between whom ? 90% of ethnic Poles supported the exiled goverment

Given that the polish goverment became the goverment in exile because France and England refused to attack Germany as they were obliged thats not really help, more of a result of earlier negligence.

England was next and everyone with a brain to them knew it, thats why they didnt surrender.

Again rubbish, England turned Hitlers peace offer down because they understood that once Russia is destroyed there will be nothing stoping Hitler from hanging a swastika from Buckingham Palace, Hitler claimed he didnt want war with Britain but lets face it Nazi regime needed war to roll and guess who's the natural enemy once Russia is gone ?

Both Britain and France turned out to be absolutely useless allies, first failing to provide any military help whatsoever and then selling Poland out at every possible turn, they did help a few odd groups of soldiers but by and large there was no political or military help for Poland.

Sokrates

n 1940 Hugh Dalton (former Chancellor of the Exchequer) said "On the day of Victory Poland, as the first nation to stand up to Hitler, while others have been grovelling on their bellies, should ride in the van of the victory march".

Winston Churchill added: "Her Majesty's government will never forget the debt they owe to the Polish troops who have served them so valiantly and for all those who have fought under our command"

Yet only six years later the Poles, who were so instrumental to the allied war effort (including The Battle of Britain; Monte Casino; Falaise Gap, Normandy; Warsaw Uprising), were forgotten. Those brave Polish servicemen, unlike every other nation fighting under Allied Command, were not invited to participate in the Victory Parade due to pressure from Stalin on the British Labour Government. An act the historian Sir John Keegan described as "one of the most shameful acts of the Cold War"

Three years ago the son of a Polish Veteran, Michael Moszynski, heard about this for the first time. Moved by the injustice of it all, he determined to put things right and wrote to the Prime Minister. As a private citizen he managed to secure an apology from Tony Blair regarding the British Government's failure to invite the Polish armed forces to the 1946 Victory Parade (covered in the FT on 5th September 2003: "UK finally makes amends for Poland's 60 years of hurt").

Yet only six years later the Poles, who were so instrumental to the allied war effort (including The Battle of Britain; Monte Casino; Falaise Gap, Normandy; Warsaw Uprising), were forgotten. Those brave Polish servicemen, unlike every other nation fighting under Allied Command, were not invited to participate in the Victory Parade due to pressure from Stalin on the British Labour Government. An act the historian Sir John Keegan described as "one of the most shameful acts of the Cold War"

Three years ago the son of a Polish Veteran, Michael Moszynski, heard about this for the first time. Moved by the injustice of it all, he determined to put things right and wrote to the Prime Minister. As a private citizen he managed to secure an apology from Tony Blair regarding the British Government's failure to invite the Polish armed forces to the 1946 Victory Parade (covered in the FT on 5th September 2003: "UK finally makes amends for Poland's 60 years of hurt").

Very good book

When is Poland going to write a letter to Ukraine apologising for stealing half of Ukraine and oppressing the people there after Poland stabbed Ukraine in the back while the two nations were supposed to be fighting together against the Russians.

Lwów Eaglets (Polish: Orlęta Lwowskie) is a term of affection applied to the Polish child soldiers who defended the city of Lwów during the Polish-Ukrainian War (1918-1919).

Originally the term was applied exclusively to young volunteers (such as Antoni Petrykiewicz), who had participated in the defense of Lwów during the city's siege by the Ukrainian army from November 1 to November 22, 1918. With time, however, the term's application was broadened, and it is now used for all the young soldiers who fought in the area of Eastern Galicia in defense of Poland in the Polish-Ukrainian War

After the Polish-Ukrainian conflict, the Lwów Eaglets were interred at the Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów, part of the Łyczaków Cemetery. The Cemetery of the Defenders held the remains of both child and adult soldiers, including foreign volunteers from France and the United States. The Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów was designed by Rudolf Indruch, a student at the Lwów institute of architecture, himself an Eaglet. Among the most notable Eaglets to be buried there was 14-year-old Jerzy Bitschan, youngest of the city's defenders, whose name became an icon of the Polish interbellum.