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 ...

WARSAW, Sept. 1, 1939 (UP) - President Moscicki proclaimed a state of war in Poland today after German airplanes had bombed Polish cities, including Warsaw, and German troops had smashed across the ...

WARSAW, PolandWARSAW, Poland — An unusual 3D film created by Polish historians shows the shocking sea of rubble that Warsaw was reduced to during World War II, bringing the city’s wartime history home ...

LONDON, Sept. 3, 1939 (INS) - Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain proclaimed to the British empire and the world at large today that Great Britain and Germany are at war, a conflict that may lead to a ...

Jerry Jazwinski was 8 years old when the Germans invaded his hometown of Warsaw, Poland, in 1939. As World War II snowballed, Jazwinski watched the siege of the city; by the time he was 13, he joined ...

British historian Roger Moorhouse has taken to social media to post a 1939 photo from war-torn Warsaw, describing it as ”one of the most iconic images of World War II, reproduced in a thousand history ...

WARSAW (JTA) — In the small park behind the only synagogue in this city to have survived World War II, Yoram Sztykgold looks around with a perplexed expression. An 82-year-old retired architect, ...

May 8th marks the 70th anniversary of World War II's VE Day. Most Americans consider Victory in Europe as being the logical end result of the June 1944's D-Day Invasion and don't think much about the ...