On 1, 1939, Germany launched Operation Case White, sending over 1.5 million troops into Poland and triggering the deadliest ...

On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, an event regarded as the start of World War II. But what came next, the German occupation of Poland, was exceptionally brutal.

On 1 September 1939, the British ambassador in Berlin issued an ultimatum to the German government urging it to cease all aggressive activities in Poland and withdraw. Two days later, at 10.00am, this ...

What on earth were the German people thinking during World War II? How could they support such a dreadful war of aggression? How could they tolerate — or actively support — the extermination of Jews ...

Said the German president, 'Eighty years ago, at this very moment, all hell rained down on Wielun,' the first city to be bombed by the Luftwaffe Author of the article: You can save this article by ...

For years, they were viewed in Poland as traitors. But as an exhibition in Gdansk shows, the truth is more complicated.Anyone ...

September 1 marks Nazi Germany's 1939 invasion of Poland igniting WWII, King Louis XIV's death, Japan's Great Kanto ...

Stephen Kuhn and his family fled Nazi Germany and came to America. Here he talks about the journey. Kuhn: My father, mother and brother and I came to this country in August 1939. We left Germany for ...

The German government has returned a painting stolen by the Nazis during the Second World War. ‘Palace Stairs,’ an 18th Century picture by Venetian artist Francesco Guardi, was taken from Poland’s ...