Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on Sept. 1, 1939, as Germany invaded Poland. Editor’s note: This story was originally published ...

Stephen Kuhn and his family fled Nazi Germany and came to America. Here he talks about the journey. Kuhn: My father, mother and brother and I came to this country in August 1939. We left Germany for ...

On Sept. 1, 1939, at around 4:48 a.m., an aged German battleship opened fire on a Polish port outside the northern city of Danzig. Strategic bridges were hit at the same time, and air raids began ...

The Hitler–Stalin alliance upset the balance of power and undermined military deterrence. The rest is history. Some 80 years ago, on August 23, 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the ...