Monument to Polish astronomer NICHOLAS COPERNICUS, who "stopped the Sun and moved the Earth", by the Danish sculptor, Bertel Thorvaldsen.
The statue of the astronomer holding compasses and armillary sphere, was cast in 1822 and erected in downtown Warsaw in 1830. It has seen its fair share of adventure.
During WWII the Nazi's placed a bronze plaque insinuating that the great man was a German, not Pole.
In 1942, a boy scout called Alek Dawidowski, ducked the guards and removed the plaque.
Boiling with fury, the Nazis removed the statue, hid it in Silesia and dynamited a few other surrounding monuments for good measure.
The statue was recovered after the war and brought back to its place in Warsaw in 1949.

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