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"Our Boys" - Poles in the Wehrmacht

The painful collision of history, memory and politics in Poland

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Katja Hoyer
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Volksliste ID of Stanisław Szuca, whose mother was German. He was drafted into the Wehrmacht and died on the Eastern Front. Img: Press office of the Gdańsk Museum

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