Poland exhumes wartime leader's body for DNA tests

KRAKOW, Poland (Reuters) – Poland exhumed the remains of wartime prime minister and military leader General Wladyslaw Sikorski Tuesday for DNA and other tests in an attempt to settle the mystery surrounding his death in 1943. Sikorski died in a plane crash in Gibraltar after visiting Polish forces fighting with the British against Nazi Germany in the Middle East. Many Poles remain convinced that he was the victim of an assassination. "This exhumation may bring a breakthrough in the investigation of General Sikorski's death," said Andrzej Drogon of the National Remembrance Institute (IPN) unit in Katowice. The IPN, which holds Poland's communist-era files, is in charge of the investigation.

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