(31 Jul 2004)

Warsaw, Poland - July 31, 2004
1. Pan from building to military music band playing and marching at Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski's reception for the survivors of the Uprising
2. Military band playing and marching
3. Honour guard holding flags
4. Veterans marching
5. Honour guard
6. Veterans watching ceremony
7. SOUNDBITE: (Polish) Aleksander Kwasniewski, Polish President:
"It is with pain and shame that it must be admitted that the trauma to the people of the uprising lasted for many more years. In post-war Poland they were often imprisoned, suppressed, pushed to the margin, and offended. Previous politics (ie the Soviet era) aimed to falsify history, but the truth and human memory are always stronger."
8. Audience
9. Various of veterans receiving medal from Kwasniewski
10. Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka at Warsaw Uprising museum opening ceremony
11. Honour guard at Warsaw Uprising museum opening ceremony
12. Audience

Warsaw, Poland - July 30, 2004
13. Various of Pathfinder squad marching, symbolising the great number of pathfinders who were killed during the uprising ahead of the ceremony of the lighting of the Memorial flame at the Warsaw Uprising Square
14. Veterans with flags watching
15. Pathfinders on horses
16. Pathfinders marching
17. Pan from pathfinders with torches to pathfinders marching
18. Pan from Warsaw hotel to the stage with the ceremony of the lighting of the Memorial flame at the Warsaw Uprising Square
19. Memorial flame
20. Various of stage

Moscow, Russia - July 31, 2004
21. Set up shot of independent Russian defence analyst Pavel Felgengauer
22. Pan from eyes to book
23. SOUNDBITE: (English) Pavel Felgengauer, independent Russian defence analyst:
"Russia is a bit more a free country and different historians express different opinions, but the official line basically is the same as in the Soviet times - that we did our best and it's the Polish fault that they began their uprising too early."

Vistula River, Poland - 1944
24. Various of boats being dragged into Vistula River
25. Tank with people on top driving into Vistula River
26. Man
27. Various of explosions next to the Vistula River

Warsaw, Poland - 1944
28. Damaged buildings in Warsaw
29. People running across street

STORYLINE:

Almost 60 years after Poles fought a doomed battle against Nazi occupiers in Warsaw, the first museum devoted to the uprising opened on Saturday in the Polish capital.

Some 3-thousand aging veterans attended the ceremony as part of an emotional three-day remembrance of the 63-day revolt, which left an estimated 200-thousand fighters and civilians dead and most of Warsaw destroyed by the Germans.

Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka spoke to a large crowd in the museum garden, standing in front of a granite wall inscribed with the names of thousands of fallen combatants.

Compounding the tragedy for Poles, the uprising was written out of official history during 40 years of communist rule, when leaders aimed to suppress the fact that the Red Army watched from the other side of the Vistula River as SS-led Nazi troops put down the uprising.

Polish soldiers bearing flags of Home Army units led veterans of the uprising in a procession at the presidential palace, where several dozen former fighters received medals.

Several stood and saluted the Polish flag with their right hands while holding canes in the other as a large video screen showed sepia-toned images of the burning city in 1944.






Poland's sense of betrayal also includes the Western allies, who did little to help the uprising.




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