Poland in Sweden

Statement of the President of the Republic of Poland published on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi death camp Auschwitz

The sublime concert crowning the celebration 100th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Poland and the Kingdom of Sweden was honored by the presence of the Minister of European Union of the Kingdom of Sweden, Mr Hans Dahlgren and the Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from Poland, Mr Konrad Szymański.

Olga Tokarczuk, Polish writer and activist, won the Nobel Prize in Literature for “a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.”

Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Marcin Przydacz, together with MPs Jan Dziedziczak and Tomasz Głogowski visited Stockholm to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Eastern Partnership.

Eighty years ago, German aggression on Poland started the Second World War. In the early hours of 1 September 1939, troops of the German Reich crossed the Polish-German border. Polish Army put up military resistance and expected the Allies’ reaction. On 3 September 1939, France and the UK declared war on the German Reich but did not take any real military action. Poland’s tragic fate was sealed on 17 September 1939 when the Soviet Union launched the invasion of Poland from the East. The attack of the German Reich and the Soviet Union resulted from the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed by the two totalitarian regimes, a secret protocol to which effectively divided Central Europe into the so-called spheres of influence.