Early in the morning, Sejm, lower house, Speaker Elzbieta Witek laid flowers at Warsaw's Monument to the Fallen and Murdered in the East. The Red Army's attack on Poland came in line with a secret ...

Could today’s modern Polish military defend 1939 Poland from the dual invasion of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union? This ...

Prominent British historian Roger Moorhouse has said that a secret agreement between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in the late 1930s gave the green light to Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland and ...

In Part 2 of this alternate history series, we ask: could today’s Polish military defend 1939 Poland against the German invasion? With modern weapons, strategy, and mobility, how would the outcome of ...

Only 16 days after the Nazis invaded Poland, the Soviet Union followed suit and marched into Poland on September 17, 1939. The event burdens Polish-Russian relations to this very day, and ...

“Macie ostatnie nowiny z Polski?” (Have you heard the news about Poland?) was the question ringing all over the Polish section of the city this morning as housewives clanned together to talk over the ...

The Nazis needed a place where mass killings could be carried out in secrecy, and for this purpose they selected a secluded clearing in the forest near the village of Palmiry.