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Krzyzowa tour

On the first day in Krzyzowa we had guided tour. We visited local Palace and House on a hill, where during the II World War meetings.

It was an anti-Hitler opposition group, later called the "Kreisau Circle". Members of the group was motivated by different ideologies, but together worked on plans to renew the democratic values of Germany and united Europe. They suffered a bitter fate – eight of them were killed by the Gestapo. But their work was not useless.

Half century after the end of the war at the estate of the founder of the "Kreisau Circle" Helmuth James von Moltke started work the Krzyżowa Foundation. The Foundation bases work on principles of the “Kreisau Circle” and continues to look towards developing understanding between persons from different social, political and cultural backgrounds.

The reunification of Germany and symbolic "Reconciliation Mass" preceded the creation of the Foundation. Exactly in Krzyżowa, three days after fall of the Berlin Wall met Poland's head of government Tadeusz Mazowiecki and German’s Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Meeting and embrace of the heads of two governments became a symbolic beginning of a new chapter and cooperation between Poland and Germany.



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