
From BBC: Germany’s president has drawn parallels between the brutal Nazi crackdown of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and Russian President Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year.
Mr Putin “has broken international law, challenged borders, committed land grabs”, said Frank-Walter Steinmeier at a commemorative ceremony in Poland.
More than 10,000 Jews were killed by the Nazis during the ghetto uprising.
Mr Steinmeier asked “for forgiveness for the crimes” Germany had committed.
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising – one of World War Two’s most remarkable acts of defiance – began exactly 80 years ago as a response to Nazi efforts to send the remaining Jewish population in the Polish capital to death camps….