When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Timothy Snyder POLAND 1939 The Outbreak of World War II By Roger Moorhouse A wise (and divorced) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WARSAW, Poland - In a gesture welcomed in Poland, the son of a Nazi official has returned three artworks that his family had looted from the southern Polish city of Krakow during World War II. Polish ...

It is common historical knowledge that the war broke out with an attack by Hitler's Third Reich against Poland on September 1, 1939. But it seems fewer people are aware that a similar invasion was ...

Poland’s Chief of the General Staff, General Wieslaw Kukula, told Polskie Radio that Moscow had “begun the period of ...

German troops shown marching through Warsaw after their invasion of Poland in September 1939. (National Archives and Records Administration) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 ...

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 ...