70 years after WW2 erupted, a new battle for history rages in Europe
The simulated screeching of the Stukas over Warsaw almost has you ducking for cover. The thump of marching jackboots portends terror. The melancholy piano of Chopin tugs at Polish heartstrings.
In the Museum of the Warsaw Rising, the sound effects are powerful, the visuals compelling, the tragedy forcefully conveyed. The story of the Polish capital's suicidal rebellion in 1944 against the Nazi occupation is vividly told through interactive, multi-media installations that play on the emotions as much as they engage the intellect.
Critics complain that it treats the past like a Disneyland theme park and avoids important and troubling questions. But it is the first such modern museum in Poland, devoted to the 63-day insurrection in August and September 1944 that left 200,000 dead and incurred a terrible revenge when the Nazis methodically razed Warsaw.
The museum is the first to reconstruct the events of a famous, but neglected, chapter in the history of the second world war. And it is a box-office sensation.
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In the Museum of the Warsaw Rising, the sound effects are powerful, the visuals compelling, the tragedy forcefully conveyed. The story of the Polish capital's suicidal rebellion in 1944 against the Nazi occupation is vividly told through interactive, multi-media installations that play on the emotions as much as they engage the intellect.
Critics complain that it treats the past like a Disneyland theme park and avoids important and troubling questions. But it is the first such modern museum in Poland, devoted to the 63-day insurrection in August and September 1944 that left 200,000 dead and incurred a terrible revenge when the Nazis methodically razed Warsaw.
The museum is the first to reconstruct the events of a famous, but neglected, chapter in the history of the second world war. And it is a box-office sensation.