14 June 1940 – The Beginning of Auschwitz Operation
27 April – Following a number of inspections at various sites, Heinrich Himmler, Commander of the SS, gives out the order to establish a...
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Corporal Wojtek Reporting For Duty
World War II, the 22nd Artillery Supply Company of the 2nd Polish Corps had an unusual soldier among its ranks, a 440-pound Syrian bear named...
Friend and Foe – The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Bad as World War II and all its horrors were it could have been a lot worse if the Germans didn’t break the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact....
Janowska Concentration Camp And Lvov
Awful atrocities were carried out at the Janowska concentration camp and surrounding Lvov(aka Lwow and Lviv) by the Nazis, Soviet troops and Ukrainian nationalists. To...
The Betrayal of Poland: 1939-1945
THE BETRAYAL OF POLAND: 1939-1945 Patrick J. Buchanan August 29, 1997 With Poland's membership in NATO at issue, a question has arisen as to whether...
Judenrat – Isaiah Trunk
Trunk’s subject is the Jewish Councils in the ghettos of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, organizations designed “”to serve only one purpose — to execute Nazi orders...
Henryk Slawik
Following the German and Soviet aggression against Poland in 1939, Henryk Slawik found himself in Hungary. He organized help for Poles detained there, and, under...