By Anna Magdalena Lubowicka

GDANSK, Poland (Reuters) -Set in the years leading up to World War Two, Disney+’s first original Polish series “The Breslau Murders” draws striking parallels with the present as fears of conflict again unsettle Central Europe, according to its director.

The series tells the story of Franz Podolsky, a police commissioner of Polish origin investigating a murder that threatens to disrupt the Nazi German propaganda campaign around the approaching 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.

It is set in the German city of Breslau, now called Wroclaw and located in Poland, where Prime Minister Donald Tusk has warned that Central Europeans must prepare for potential conflict with Russia following its 2022 invasion of neighbouring Ukraine.

This week, Tusk said the country had com

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