Blog posts related to Polish history from all eras.
The German government has approved the establishment in Berlin of an institution that will commemorate Polish victims of Nazi Germany. It says that the enormous…
July 4, 1943: Polish Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief General Władysław Sikorski dies when his plane crashes off Gibraltar. The B-24 crashed into the sea just…
On June 30, 1943, General Stefan ‘Grot’ Rowecki, head of the Polish Underground Army (Armia Krajowa, AK or Home Army) was arrested by the Gestapo…
The remains of a World War II German V-1 rocket were found in the Błędow Desert in Poland by members of the Pasjonaci Historii Polonia…
Code name Operation Barbarossa: on June 22, 1941, millions of German soldiers invade the Soviet Union, as Hitler turns on his erstwhile ally Stalin. The…
On June 20, 1942, four Polish prisoners mounted a daring escape out of Auschwitz. Kazimierz Piechowski, Stanisław Jaster, Józef Lempart and Eugeniusz Bender sneaked into…
On June 18, 1940, the day after France surrendered to Germany, Władysław Sikorski, Polish Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief, flew to London. When he met with…
303 Squadron was the highest-scoring Allied fighter squadron in the Battle of Britain, credited with downing 126 enemy planes in its six weeks of operations,…
On June 14, 1940, the Germans entered Paris unopposed by Allied forces. The day before, June 13, Winston Churchill had flown to France to meet…
Today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the largest amphibious invasion in history (code-named Operation Overlord). It was the beginning of the end of World…
In one of the most critical operations of World War II, the British evacuated some 335,000 British and other Allied soldiers trapped on the beaches…
When I took a look at the Wall St. Journal this morning, I saw an article on page 1 (below the fold) titled “Tiniest National…
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