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Mass Grave, Believed to be of Stalinist Terror Victims, In Ukrainian Castle Discovered

About a thousand remains, majority of them Polish and believed to be victims of Stalinist terror, were unearthed in Kazimierz, the great castle in Ukraine…

Poland Plays Host to WWI Reenactment

Ian Harvey
WWI reenactment

A recent WWI reenactment has been staged in Poland, paying homage to one of the conflict’s key battles. The battle in question took place when…

ARMOURED HUSSARS – Images of the Polish 1st Armoured Division 1939-47 – Review by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes

Here we have an eagerly awaited book that does not take much reviewing.  The author’s father Alexsander was a warrant officer who gave a life…

Royal Air Force Pays Tribute to the Fabled Great Escape

Ian Harvey
Great Escape

The Great Escape was something of a pyrrhic victory for the Allies, as numerous soldiers lost their lives in the attempt to escape from a…

Remembering WWII by Remembering Our Veterans

Ian Harvey

On Veterans Day in 2013, President Barack Obama honored Richard Overton, 107 years-old, at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery. Mr. Owens…

WWII and Holocaust are no joke: Committee protests against Kimmel’s anti-Polish ethnic putdowns

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The Anti-Bigotry Committee of the Polish American Congress released an official letter in protest to the series of anti-Polish ethnic jokes which was used recently…

Top 8 WWII Mistakes Made By The Allies

Ian Harvey

  1. The Failure to Attack Germany After It Invaded Poland Starting from the beginning, one of the first mistakes related to the Second World…

Hitler’s Loyal Bodyguard Died earlier this year Aged 96

Ian Harvey

Rochus Misch was born in a small town of Alt Schalkowitz and what is now Poland, on July 29, 1917 and both his parents passed…

Archive of Spielberg’s Schindler’s List consisting of 52,000 interviews about Holocaust transferred from U.S. to Poland

Photo story (From left to right): (1) Influential filmmaker Steven Spielberg photographed on 3rd October, 2013 (2) In Spielberg’s epic historical film ‘Schindler’s List’ based…

European Courts are Disgusted by Russia’s Handling of the Katyn Massacre

20,000 Polish war prisoners were slaughtered during the 1940 Katyn massacre. Russia kept important files a secret while the European Court of Human Rights were…

Was Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement policy best for Britain’s national interests?

Photo story (Clockwise from top left): (1) Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister of UK from May, 1937 to May, 1940 (2) Chamberlain speaking to interpreter…

Artist Arrested for Sculpting a Memorial Depicting the Rape of Women by Red Army Soldiers

Jeremy Szumczyk is an art student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland. Upon researching the use of rape as a weapon by…