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Polish resistence efforts also get sidelined in WW2 history, especially work for the enigma machine decoding efforts.
And if you're in Warsaw, find time to visit the uprising museum.
that sounds more fun/educational than visiting Auschwitz to be honest. I value the Auschwitz museum existing, but I'm pretty familiar with the horrors of the holocaust, I don't need to see the actual gas chambers, mass graves or medical experiment tools.
I am not saying you're wrong, but I wonder if your country doesn't teach that bit of history. Here in Western Europe, it is taught that Poles who went on exile to UK brought a copy of Enigma machine with them.
I don't recall that in the UK lessons on WW2, over 20 years ago.
I'm OLD!
Fun novel.
"The Polish Officer" by Alan Furst.