Tough problem, iPod most likely corrupted won't charge...

Ok so this is the biggest problem I've gotten with my ipod yet. My ipod is the new 6th gen 120GB, I've got it three weeks ago. It worked fine. I went on a 10 day trip around Europe, and I've used my iPod thorough the trip, and I would recharge in hotels using a wall charger, and it worked fine. When we were returning home like 30 miles away from home I was listening to it and it was on the last strip of battery so I stopped listening. Later that evening, I wanted to listen to it, but since it said "Connect to Power", I plugged it into my wall charger. Normally it showed the apple logo for a few seconds and then an error popped up. It says www.apple.com/support/ipod , so I did.
It looks most likely from the Apple support website that my iPod got corrupted and needs to be reformatted. Now here's the biggest problem. I plug my iPod into my USB drive and my PC doesn't recognize it at all, neither does iTunes. All that the iPod does is show the apple logo and then the error message again, then it just turns off. I tried to reset it but it didn't help. In order to reformat it it needs to be charged and be in disk mode, but it won't charge and the PC won't recognize it. The only difference now is that it doesn't show the low on battery sign anymore. When I press the button it just shows the apple logo and then the error. It also makes quiet beeping sounds when it shows the logo and error sign. Another problem is that my dad got it fom me from USA and I live in Poland in a small town, and we don't have an Apple store here, and a bigger city is 2 hrs drive.
What should I do?

Have you tried any of these pages?
*[iPod Missing in My Computer or iTunes for Windows|http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1369]*
*[Ipod not recognized properly|http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538]*

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