Veterans mark 60th anniversary of Warsaw uprising

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.

Schroeder was to join Polish leaders as well as US Secretary of State Colin Powell and Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott in honouring the estimated 200,000 Poles who died in the two-month uprising.