While Poland fought Nazi Germany in the west, the Soviet Union invaded from the east under the shadow of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. Within weeks, Poland was divided between the two powers, and ...

(Excerpt from "The Path of the Righteous: Gentile Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust" by Mordecai Paldiel, KTAV Publishing House, Inc. Hoboken, N.J. 1993.) When Germany invaded Poland on September ...

On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany launched their invasion into Poland marking the beginning of World War II. Among those units invading Poland was that of Lieutenant Hans-Albrecht Herzner. But when ...

The churches in Poland and Germany want to 'continue to work to break down and overcome enmities in Europe.' Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda of Gniezno, president of the Polish Bishops’ Conference (left), ...

European nations are constructing a defensive wall along NATO's eastern frontier as Western intelligence agencies warn Russia could be militarily capable of attacking the alliance within five years.

In the opening hours of World War II, in the early morning skies over Poland, both the Axis and the Allied side had aerial victories and aerial “firsts”, some involving unlikely and obscure aircraft ...

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