Commemorations of the Greater Poland Uprising 100th anniversary

Thursday marked the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Greater Poland Uprising. It was the biggest and the only victorious military insurrection of Poles against German rule during the Partitions period. The uprising broke out on 27 December 1918 in Poznań, after a patriotic speech by Ignacy Paderewski, the famous pianist, who would become the Polish prime minister in 1919. The scene of Paderewski's arrival was reconstructed in Poznań.