Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on Sept. 1, 1939, as Germany invaded Poland. Editor’s note: This story was originally published ...

In September 1939, following Germany’s invasion of Poland, France launched a limited offensive across the border into the Saar region. Intended as a show of support for its Polish ally, the operation ...

On Sept. 1, 1939, at around 4:48 a.m., an aged German battleship opened fire on a Polish port outside the northern city of Danzig. Strategic bridges were hit at the same time, and air raids began ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Ironically, lack of training was a major cause for the destruction of the old Luftwaffe in Nazi Germany. In 1939, German pilots would go into battle with more than 200 ...

In 1939, Albert Einstein wrote "thank you notes" to a few people for helping Jews to escape Nazi Germany, and while historians only knew about two of those letters, a third surfaced here in Chicago.