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| [00:00.00] | A day of commemorations will begin in Poland |
| [00:04.80] | shortly to mark the 70th anniversary |
| [00:07.14] | of the outbreak of the 2nd World War. |
| [00:09.08] | The first ceremony will take place at dawn |
| [00:11.57] | on the Westerplatte peninsula near Gdansk. |
| [00:14.01] | Greg Morsbach reports. |
| [00:15.89] | 70 years ago to the day, |
| [00:18.13] | the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein |
| [00:20.62] | opened fire on a Polish military |
| [00:22.97] | outpost in the Baltic peninsula. |
| [00:24.95] | This heralded the start of the Second World War, |
| [00:28.05] | a conflict that claimed more than 50 million lives. |
| [00:31.26] | 70 years old leaders and top officials from nations |
| [00:34.27] | such as Germany, Italy, Ukraine, France, the U.S., |
| [00:38.39] | Russia and Poland are reattending a series of ceremonies |
| [00:41.95] | on the Polish coast. |
| [00:43.12] | Moscow is sending a top-level delegation |
| [00:45.96] | with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin |
| [00:47.79] | scheduled to deliver a speech |
| [00:49.73] | commemorating the event seven decades ago. |
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