The German foreign minister Heiko Maas was in Warsaw to pay respects to the Polish people and to ask for forgiveness for what the Germans did.
He said: "I am ashamed of what the Germans did to your country. And I am also ashamed that for so long after the war there was nothing spoken of what we Germans had done," Maas said in the Museum of The Warsaw Rising in the Polish capital.
The foreign minister believes a memorial to the suffering of the people of Warsaw at the hands of the Germans is long overdue in Berlin
Vasily Grossman, author of 'Stalingrad' wrote these words about life in Treblinka, which lies 108 kilometres from Warsaw:
"This creature [SS guard at the camp] specialised in the killing of children. Evidently endowed with unusual strength, he would suddenly snatch a child out of the crowd, swing him or her about like a cudgel and then either smash their head against the ground or simply tear them in half.
"When I first heard about this creature—supposedly human, supposedly born of a woman—I could not believe the unthinkable things I was told.
"But when I heard these stories repeated by eyewitnesses, when I realized that these witnesses saw them as mere details, entirely in keeping with everything else about the hellish regime of Treblinka, then I came to believe that what I had heard was true".
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