THE Polish capital came to a standstill on Thursday as it marked the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, an ill-fated revolt against Nazi German forces during World War II.

Polish President Andrzej Duda and his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier stood together to remember those days of August in 1944. They paid tribute to the Wola Massacre, a mass-murder of civilians in Warsaw’s Wola district carried out by German troops from August 5 to August 12 1944.

Mr Duda said: “They were led out of their homes, tenement houses, their homes were set on fire and they themselves were shot in the streets and their bodies were burned.”