The law passed both houses of Poland's parliament with reportedly near-unanimous support. Lawmakers emphasized that the ...

On September 17 1939, the Soviet Red Army invaded Poland from the East while it was fighting Nazi Germany in the West. Following military operations, which lasted for the next 20 days, Nazi Germany ...

Iran does not have the type of support from Russia or China that North Korea does. Also, despite North Korea being a ...

Belarusian opositionist Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, centre, and Sergei Tsikhanovsky, right, with Poland's President Andrzej Duda, ...

Warsaw expects exhumation work for Polish soldiers killed in 1939 and buried in the former village of Zboiska (now within the ...

It might be printed in our history books, but historians actually disagree on the exact date World War II started.

It was clear to US Army leaders after the blitzkrieg of 1939-1940, where German tanks overran first Poland and then most of ...

The symbolic site—known as the Memorial Site for Poland 1939–1945—stands on the grounds of the former Kroll Opera House, where Adolf Hitler announced the invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939.

Their efforts revealed a forgotten World War II bunker, previously overlooked by archaeologists — but questions linger. Ahead of highway construction, archaeologists surveyed a stretch of land near ...

The ‘Western-centric’ view of events plays down the role of Chinese forces in defeating fascism, one observer says.

When Poland was invaded on September 1, 1939, the vast majority of its 3.3 million Jews remained in place, naively hoping for the best.

The invasion of Poland in 1939 marked the beginning of World War II. A swift and devastating attack that set the world on a path to global conflict.