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 ...

When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939 and World War II erupted, the vastly outmatched Polish military mounted a ...

Poland has asked a state jewelry museum in south-west Germany to hand back a Renaissance ring once owned by King Sigismund I ...

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

In a forest of southern Poland, a team of workers chopped down trees and hauled away bushes to clear a path for a new road.

Instead of Germany’s 1939 invasion of Poland marking the beginning of the global conflict, some academics at a second world war history seminar in Beijing on Tuesday said it should be Japan’s ...

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. A small and perceptive minority, ...

Join Rick Steves for a "best of Poland" special featuring Kraków, Warsaw, Gdańsk and more. Skip to Main Content. Shows; ... were nearly destroyed after Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939.

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.