Eighty-years ago, on Sept. 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, thus starting World War II. The front-page banner headline of The Patriot on Sept. 2, 1939, read, “Get Out of Poland or fight us, Britain ...

THE World War was won by the soldiers of democracy, over an autocracy in quest of world hegemony, led by an over-ambitious Emperor. The Peace was lost by democracy's postwar statesmen, for twenty ...

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 ...

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 ...

I went on holiday to Germany, in July 1939. Staying at Berchtesgarden. My bedroom window in the hotel overlooked Hitler's house, the Berghof. One day at breakfast, I was approached by three SS ...

The German government has returned a painting stolen by the Nazis during the Second World War. ‘Palace Stairs,’ an 18th Century picture by Venetian artist Francesco Guardi, was taken from Poland’s ...

GERMANY'S annexation of Austria made Hungary a neighbor of the Reich. The Munich settlement has made all the Eastern neighbors of Germany her dependents. Hungarian history from the Middle Ages ...