Visiting Warsaw shortly after Germany had fallen, U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower was moved to confess: “I have seen many towns destroyed, but nowhere have I been faced with such destruction. ”Yet ...

The Second World War saw the majority of Europe succumb to Nazi occupation. The brutal repression that followed triggered ...

This puts into question whether Lublin was the capital during that period. After World War II, despite having been 85% destroyed, Warsaw re-emerged as the capital of Poland. Since then, the city has ...

a few months after the Warsaw ghetto was destroyed, Gestapo agents captured, tortured, and executed Teitelbaum. She was 25 years old. Read next ...

Though several Warsaw sights (think: the Warsaw Uprising Museum and the Warsaw Uprising Monument) pay homage to Polish Jews who lost their lives during World War II, one of the city's best ...

Polish elites believe that Moscow recovered from the shock of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact and built up new strength by opening up to the West. They see it as now directing ...

Warsaw is a popular city for its shopping malls The heart of Warsaw, the modern capital of Poland which was completely destroyed by Germans during the Second World War, has risen from the rubble ...