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Page last updated at 03:52 GMT, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 04:52 UK

Poland marks WWII anniversary

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A ceremony has begun in Poland to mark the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II in Europe.

The pre-dawn service on Westerplatte peninsula near Gdansk was timed to match the moment a German battleship fired the first shots on a Polish fort in 1939.

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