A World War II exhibition about Polish soldiers forcibly recruited into the Nazi armed forces has triggered strong reactions ...

The Historical Museum in Gdansk, Poland, presented the exhibition "Our Boys", dedicated to the residents of Danzig who served ...

Nazi Germany declared war on Poland. The Second World War had begun and Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party, finally had ...

At the dawn of World War II, an army of 42,000 Nazi soldiers marched into northwest Poland en route to the country's capital, Warsaw. But they were stopped at the tiny village of Wizna — by a ...

Officials have paid tribute to Polish soldiers who fought on multiple fronts of World War II on the 78th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw ...

Speaking at a ceremony in Chelm marking the 82nd anniversary of the 1943-44 Volyn massacres, Polish President-elect Karol ...

He joined the Polish 2nd Corps. 5th Kresowa Division 18th Lwowski Battalion who had just completed one of the bloodiest battles in WW2 at Monte Cassino, where very many Polish soldiers lost there ...

Few stories in military history are as extraordinary as that of Wojtek, the Syrian brown bear who became an official soldier in the Polish Army during World War II.