 At dawn of first September 1939, the "Schleswig-Hostein" approached to within several hundred metres of Westerplatte and at 4.45 hours opened fire. It s a begining of II World War. The German ship maintained fire for 6 minutes, after which the infantry moved in to first attack. For about 200 Polish soldiers and their commander, Major Henryk Sucharski it s the first from seven days of their heroic defence.