The defenders of Westerplatte, utterly outgunned and doomed, could not have known that their resistance would go down in Polish history. Yet what they did, and what the defenders of Warsaw did in 1939, and what many other Poles did in later years, kept Poland’s soul alive and whole. When the time came in the 1980s for the dockworkers of what was then Gdansk to rise up against a Soviet puppet government, they could draw on a faith and a courage that had survived the decades—in part because of that record.
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