Where will the first ceremony be held this year?

A day of commemorations will begin in Poland shortly to mark the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the 2nd World War. (7) The first ceremony will take place at dawn on the Westerplatte peninsula near Gdansk. Greg Morsbach reports. 70 years ago to the day, the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire on a Polish military outpost on the Baltic peninsula. This heralded the start of the Second World War, a conflict that claimed more than 50 million lives. (8) 70-year-old leaders and top officials from nations such as Germany, Italy, Ukraine, France, the U.S., Russia and Poland are reattending a series of ceremonies on the Polish coast. Moscow is sending a top-level delegation with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin scheduled to deliver a speech commemorating the event seven decades ago.