Poland Marks 85 Years Since WWII Outbreak

President Andrzej Duda lays a wreath at the monument in memory of victims of the Nazi bombing on September 1, 1939 (Credit: AFP)

Poland on Sunday marked 85 years since the outbreak of World War II during annual commemoration ceremony held at dawn to remember Nazi Germany's first attacks that triggered the deadly conflict.

Nearly six million Poles died in the conflict that killed more than 50 million people overall, including the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust, half of them Polish.