Schroeder pays tribute to Warsaw resistance

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.

Mr Schroeder, the first German chancellor to attend an uprising anniversary, faced a delicate mission in atoning for the brutal crushing of the two-month revolt, which ended with 200,000 residents dead and most of the city systematically destroyed by the Nazis.

“I consider it a great honour to me personally to have been invited and a big-hearted gesture to my country, which brought such immeasurable suffering over the Poles with the war it started,” Mr Schroeder said after talks with Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka.