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The experience includes insurgents who speak to the viewer as if he were one of them
(Representational)Warsaw, Poland: Seventy-four years after Polish insurgents launched the doomed Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, Poland
has brought the tragic episode back to life through virtual reality.Visitors to the capital's Kordegarda gallery will be able to put on a
headset and find themselves amid the ruins of 1944 Warsaw."We no longer have to ask ourselves what we would have done had we been there,"
said the film's mastermind Tomasz Dobosz."We feel like we're actually there at that time, which enables a sensitive viewer to experience the
decisions he would have made to hide or fight alongside the heroes," he told reporters.The 15-minute-long virtual reality experience
includes insurgents who speak to the viewer as if he were one of them, suffering a severe head injury, as well as a German soldier who
dances with a Polish prisoner before shooting her dead.The film is fictional but refers to a real event involving the insurgent Wladyslaw
Sieroszewski, who was shot by the Germans in the heart but survived because the bullet was blocked by his wallet which contained a letter
from his daughter.Funded by the culture ministry and filmed over two years, the project was revealed on the eve of the anniversary of the
Warsaw uprising.The bloody 63-day battle broke out on August 1, 1944 and saw around 50,000 young men and women take up arms against the Nazi
Germans occupying the capital.Vastly better equipped, the Nazis killed nearly 200,000 insurgents and civilians
What little was left standing was then razed on the orders of Adolf Hitler.(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by
TheIndianSubcontinent staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
