September 1 marks Nazi Germany's 1939 invasion of Poland igniting WWII, King Louis XIV's death, Japan's Great Kanto ...

In September 1939, following Germany’s invasion of Poland, France launched a limited offensive across the border into the ...

On 1, 1939, Germany launched Operation Case White, sending over 1.5 million troops into Poland and triggering the deadliest ...

It was 1939. Germany, under the leadership of Nazi dictator Adolph Hitler, had already annexed Austria, the Sudetenland and ...

(L-R) Former German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, Former speaker of the Bundestag Rita Suessmuth during a ceremony to unveil a monument to Polish victims of World War II. Mrhal Jaromír/CTK/dpa Germany ...

(CNN) — Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion – codenamed Operation ...

December 1944-March 1945. "Where in the hell is everybody at?" -- The Spartan -- Thunder from heaven -- Deliberate and disciplined -- Fifty percent of two is one -- Every hour a gift -- Sequitis ...

Large parts of Dresden's Old Town were evacuated on Wednesday as experts sought to defuse an unexploded World War II bomb found during clearance work for a collapsed bridge. Some 17,000 people were ...

The Army trained 18-year-old Virginia man David Poole as an airplane mechanic in 1943. He soon found himself on the cusp of ...

(CNN) — Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. (CNN) — Friday marks 81 years since D ...