The Boston Pilot11d
God, honor, homeland: Polish 'cursed soldiers' remembered for their steadfast faith
A veteran officer of the Polish Army and member of World War II underground resistance Home Army, he voluntarily entered Auschwitz to gather intelligence and later escaped the death camp in 1943 to ...
Greek Reporter1d
The German Soldier Who Saved a Greek Town from Destruction
Josef H. Blechinger was a German soldier who became one of the greatest heroes of the resistance and saved a Greek town from ...
Miami Herald10d
Thousands of war artifacts — and body of Red Army soldier — unearthed on Poland coast
From the Napoleonic Wars in the early 1800s to World War II, the land of north-central Europe has seen battles large and small. Evidence of these conflicts is bountiful in Gdańsk, Poland ...
The New York Times8d
Alarmed by Trump, Poland Must Look at Nuclear Options, Premier Says
Stanislaw Ulam, a Polish mathematician and physicist, played an important role in the Manhattan Project, the United States’ secret atomic bomb program during World War II, and in the subsequent ...