Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Sept. 1, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, an ...

Imagine it’s 1939 and you are one of 80 American missionaries with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints serving over 5,000 miles away in Germany as Adolf Hitler’s army begins to close the ...

In Part 2 of this alternate history series, we ask: could today’s Polish military defend 1939 Poland against the German invasion? With modern weapons, strategy, and mobility, how would the outcome of ...

In the summer of 1939, the world watched uneasily in the hope that Nazi Germany would cease its conquest of European nations. In the United States, there was little political will to become ensnared ...