Poland marks anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | DW News

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has joined his Polish and Israeli counterparts, Andrzej Duda and Isaac Herzog respectively, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when the Jewish resistance movement rose up against the German Nazi occupation of the city.

"As German Federal President, I stand before you today and bow to the courageous fighters in the Warsaw ghetto," Steinmeier said. "I bow to the dead in deep sorrow."

"I stand before you today and ask for your forgiveness for the crimes committed here by Germans," he added.

He also stressed how remarkable an achievement reconciliation was after those unprecedented crimes against humanity.

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