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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

German troops shown marching through Warsaw after their invasion of Poland in September 1939. (National Archives and Records Administration) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 ...

World War II began with Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939. Adolf Hitler used a propaganda lie as a pretext to strike. It was a historic turning point that still has relevance for today. On the ...

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 ...

When the 1950s T.V. documentary series Air Power got around to covering the opening battles of World War II, it unfortunately reinforced a popular, and entirely incorrect, notion. “The Polish air ...