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

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

In 1953, Poland’s then-communist rulers relinquished all claims to war reparations under pressure from the Soviet Union, which wanted to free East Germany, also a Soviet satellite, from any ...

On This Day: Germany's Invasion of Poland. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland after signing the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with the Soviet Union.

Germany and the Soviet Union probably suffered the most from the fighting. Perhaps Poland. World War II ended almost 80 years ago. Much of Europe was in ruins.

Former Soviet satellite state Poland has unleashed the power of its homegrown talent to create faster economic growth and more defense spending as a percentage of GDP than even the U.S.

Less than 18 hours after Great Britain and France declared war on Germany, plunging nearly 300,000,000 persons of nations around the globe into war, Hitler's forces apparently had struck the first ...

Poland will provide Ukraine with five Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets. The jets originally belonged to East Germany during the Soviet era and were sold to Warsaw. The German government approved the ...

At the time Allied troops were moving across Europe in a series of offensives against Germany. Soviet troops first liberated the Majdanek camp near Lublin in July 1944, and would go on to liberate ...

This model was exported across Eastern and Central Europe during the Cold War.In East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Poland, ministries dictated curricula, Marxism-Leninism became mandatory across ...

Auschwitz the labor and death camp. The German authorities founded the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940 in the Polish town of Oswiecim after their invasion of Poland in 1939.