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Rota (“The Oath“) is an early 20th-century Polish poem, as well as a celebratory anthem, once proposed to be the Polish national anthem. Rota’s lyrics were written in 1908 by activist for Polish independence, poet Maria Konopnicka as a protest against German Empire’s policies of forced Germanization of Poles. Konopnicka wrote Rota in 1908 while staying in Cieszyn. The poem was published for the first time in Gwiazdka Cieszyńska newspaper on 7 November. The music was composed two years later by composer, conductor and concert organist, Feliks Nowowiejski.
During the German occupation of Poland in World War II, on the eve of 11 November 1939 (Polish Independence Day), in Zielonka, a town at the outskirts of Warsaw, the scouts from the Polish Scouting Association put up posters with the text of the poem on the walls of the buildings. In reprisal, German occupying forces carried out an execution of 9 scouts and other inha
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