Blitzkrieg! The aptly named Lightning War. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and his generals knew that Germany could ill-afford ...

The massive scope of inhumanity by an authoritarian government should concern us all. The deceitful sign entering Auschwitz, ...

November 1918 and the war to end all wars comes to its conclusion as the guns on the western front fall silent. For four years prior, the army of German Kaiser Wilhelm II had shot and shelled its way ...

The occupation of Poland may have turned out to be the last hurrah of Polish warplanes during WWII, but not the Polish combat pilots, more specifically the ones that escaped into exile in Great ...

Black grouse and caviar helped Stalin get much of what he wanted, but his Red Army counted for more, says a notable historian ...

When my mother-in-law, Helen Diamant, was a 22-year-old woman named Chella Wildenberg in Poland in 1939, Adolf Hitler’s army invaded her country at the beginning of World War II. After suffering ...

Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April in the small Austrian ... Spurred by his success at Munich, Hitler looked east to Poland. But first he had to make a deal with Stalin's USSR.

The grandparents of today’s jihadists had similarly collaborated with Adolf Hitler, who promised them ... came upon Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland and saw the extent of the Nazis ...

Unsurprisingly, some in Eastern Europe view the current US-Russia talks over Ukraine’s future as a revival of this kind of ...

They have caused particular offense in Poland — which was the first country to be invaded by Adolf Hitler’s forces at the start of World War II. Poland lost around 6 million people in the war — half ...

1934 - Germany signs a non-aggression pact with Poland: Adolf Hitler's government signed a ten-year pact, later violated in 1939 with the invasion of Poland. 1950 - India becomes a republic ...