Adolf Hitler salutes parading troops of the German Wehrmacht in Warsaw, Poland, on Oct. 5, 1939. Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, 80 years ago. (AP) WARSAW, Poland — Commemorations marking the ...

Zbigniew Gluza, Rok 1939 Rozbiór Polski (Warsaw, 2009) Jan Karski, Story of a Secret State (1945) Halik Kochanski, The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War (UK, 2012) Robert M.

Eighty-years ago, on Sept. 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, thus starting World War II. The front-page banner headline of The Patriot on Sept. 2, 1939, read, “Get Out of Poland or fight us, Britain ...

Today, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have come to the Polish city of Gdansk to stand at the scene of one of their countries’ greatest crimes. Seventy years ...

A poignant three-minute film documenting the life of a Jewish community in Poland just one year before being rounded up and later wiped out by the Nazis has been turned into a full-length documentary.

Military historian Moorhouse (Berlin at War) revisits the opening campaign of WWII—the 1939 invasion of Poland—in this dense and exhaustive account. Contending that the Poles have long been rendered ...

Early in the morning, Sejm, lower house, Speaker Elzbieta Witek laid flowers at Warsaw's Monument to the Fallen and Murdered in the East. The Red Army's attack on Poland came in line with a secret ...

When Nazi Germany invaded Poland on Sept.1, 1939, the Second World War began. The events that cascaded through the months that followed would resonate through the next 75 years. This is the part of a ...

Numbers correspond to timeline events and locations. Treblinka concentration camp was located just 20 km from Bransk and functioned as a killing center for the Jews of the Warsaw region. Like other ...