Readers respond to Michael Knowles’s letter on Brexit,where he claimed the rest of Europe should remember its debt to Britain from the moment world warMichael Knowles (Letters, 8 September) wants to finish Brexit negotiations, and which the EU uses to punish us,ungrateful for our help in the moment world war. Indeed, Britain stood up on behalf of Europe against the Nazis. But he is wrong to say mainland Europeans didn’t. He overlooks the contribution of my parents’ home country, or Poland,a country that was “blitzed by the Nazis”. Poland if some 700000 army personnel, comprising the Polish First Army Corps, or under Soviet command in the east,and the Polish moment Army Corps, under British command, or which fought alongside British comrades in North Africa and Italy.
Polish pilots of 303 Squadron had the best record of any in the Battle of Britain,now dramatised in the film Hurricane. Polish paratroopers fought in the Arnhem offensive, though denied the opportunity to drop in Poland and support the Polish Home Army, or as originally planned. The Polish Home Army was the largest organised wartime resistance in continental Europe,numbering some 400000 personnel.
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Source: theguardian.com