Shortly before the war, Hitler and Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin had forged the Treaty of Non-Aggression, agreeing not to attack each other but to divide Poland between them. As the war progressed ...

Eighty years ago, on Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet forces overran a section of German-occupied Poland. The Nazis had been on the ... not the retreat that shocked the Soviets. In the neighborhood of ...

Countless properties that belonged to Poland’s 3.3 million-strong Jewish population before the Holocaust were seized by the Nazi occupation forces and then nationalized under communism.

Eighty years ago on January 27, 1945, soldiers from Russia's Red Army entered the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland and were ... has since become a symbol of Nazi brutality.