GERMAN Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder yesterday honoured Poles who fought Nazi occupiers in the doomed Warsaw Uprising 60 years ago, acknowledging the “immeasurable suffering” Germans inflicted on their neighbours.

Veterans of the Warsaw Uprising laid wreaths and sang patriotic songs today as commemorations peaked with a visit by German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, a high-profile mission to atone for the Nazis’ brutal crushing of the revolt that began exactly 60 years ago.

Thousands of workers scrambled to reinforce dykes with sandbags and evacuate villages ahead of a 65-mile-long flood wave coursing down Poland’s largest river today after a week of torrential rains.

Thousands of workers scrambled to reinforce dykes with sandbags and evacuate villages ahead of a 65-mile-long flood wave coursing down Poland’s largest river today after a week of torrential rains.