The beginning of the outdoor exhibition "The conflict of Monte Cassino 1944" and the nationwide technological conference on this subject began celebrations of 80 in Szczecin. Anniversary of this 1 of the top battles of Poles during planet War II. The event was organized by the Szczecin Branch of the Institute of National Memory.
The exhibition stood on Wednesday morning in the very centre of the city, in the Consensual Square. It consists of 21 boards presenting the conflict and destiny of the 2nd Polish Corps commanded by General Władysław Anders. It is unique due to the fact that the photographs in it come from many sources and are frequently unpublished or not known. It is an exhibition from private archives, including prof. Bogusław and Michał Poles, Prof. Waldemar Handke, as well as the Polish Institute and the Sikorski Museum in London, the Józef Piłsudski Institute in Nowy Jorsk or the Berlin Bundesarchiv, due to the fact that the exhibition presents the conflict from a Polish, Allied and German perspective.
The exhibition was opened by the manager of Szczecin Institute of National Memory in Szczecin Krzysztof Męciński and professors Bogusław and Michał Polaków. They came to the opening, decorated on white shirts with red poppies, students of the 9th Monte Cassino Heroes advanced School in Szczecin.
- I'm sorry. It was a large and very crucial battle, and the triumph in it was besides crucial due to the fact that the Germans treated Monte Cassino propagandaly by directing their best military there – the paratroopers of Herman Goering – said Prof. Bogusław Polak, a known investigator of the past of the Polish Armed Forces in the West. However, he added that, contrary to popular narrative, it was not a conflict of “the bloodiest”. “This legend was arranged, but 2 Corps lost 923 soldiers under Monte Cassino, counting little than 50,000 soldiers,” said the scientist. He stressed the crucial function of quartermastership and sanitary services. – It was the largest material conflict of planet War II. To this day there are military materials in the caves around the monastery.
After the beginning of the exhibition in the close halt past – educational centre of the Institute of National Memory in Szczecin, a nationwide technological conference “The Place of the conflict of Monte Cassino in the memory of Poles and global perception” was launched, with the participation of representatives of the planet of discipline from many centres in the country, including the Koszalin University of Technology, which was a partner of the event, as well as from branches of the Institute of the Institute of the Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Białystok, the Institute of Gen. Stefan “Grota” Roweckiego in Leszno and the University of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński in Warsaw.
"The conflict of Monte Cassino, whose 80th anniversary we celebrate, was 1 of the most crucial Polish weapons in past and requires the memory of the soldiers who fought in it, soldiers – wanderers – exiles to Siberia, from whom General Anders managed to make a strong, well-trained army, which was a large success in this battle," says manager of the Szczecin Branch of the Institute of National Memory Krzysztof Męciński. – We must take care of her memory, the more I am glad to be present at the beginning of the exhibition and at the technological conference not only scientists, but besides young people from the 9th Monte Cassino Heroes' advanced School in Szczecin. Who, like them, should peculiarly cultivate this memory, and have been doing so for many years.
This isn't the end of the Monte Cassino fight. On Friday, Szczeciński IPN organizes a celebration at the monument “Memoir of the Kombatants” at the Central Cemetery in Szczecin. On Saturday, May 18th on the anniversary of the collapse of the white red flag on the ruins of the monastery, during the “Night of Museums” the Szczecin Institute of National Memory invites to the halt of past for an exhibition of artifacts related to this battle. These will be first uniforms, papers and archives of the IPN in Szczecin, but besides Wojtek's teddy bear region for children and multimedia shows. The reconstructionists dressed in 2nd Polish Corps uniforms will come to the event.
