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 ...

On the night of August 31, 1939, several operatives in Polish uniforms infiltrated the radio station at Gleiwitz in Upper ...

Numbers correspond to timeline events and locations. Treblinka concentration camp was located just 20 km from Bransk and functioned as a killing center for the Jews of the Warsaw region. Like other ...

It is common historical knowledge that the war broke out with an attack by Hitler's Third Reich against Poland on September 1, 1939. But it seems fewer people are aware that a similar invasion was ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This examination of the military's role in Polish politics and society between the two world wars attempts to fill a gap in our knowledge of ...

Historian Moorhouse (Poland 1939) recounts in this immersive chronicle the story of Polish diplomat Aleksander Lados and his colleagues in Bern, Switzerland, who provided fake travel documents to more ...

Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation In this gripping and expansive reexamination of the Scopes Monkey Trial, a lightning-rod debate over what was allowed to be ...