Today in military history: Nazis begin Warsaw deportations
On July 22, 1942, the Nazis began the mass deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the extermination camp at Treblinka in Poland. Warsaw was the largest Jewish ghetto…
Polish eagle scouts stole a tank and liberated a concentration camp in the middle of WWII
In the summer of 1944, the Red Army was approaching Warsaw and Nazi Germany was preparing to retreat all along the Eastern Front. That’s when the Polish Resistance launched Operation…
5 reasons why the Winged Hussars are among the greatest fighters of all time
Everyone always remembers the sheer bad*ssery and battle prowess of the vikings, the samurai, and the Roman legionnaires — but the Winged Hussars of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth a rarely find a way into the conversation.
Don’t let th…
Poland willing to pay for U.S. deterrent to Russia
As military personnel paraded through Warsaw on foot, horseback, and armored vehicles on Aug. 15, 2018, Polish President Andrzej Duda
Warsaw remembers the historic ghetto uprising 75 years later
Commemorations are being held to mark the 75th anniversary the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, when thousands of young Jewish fighters took up arms against occupying Nazi German forces during World War II.
The uprising broke out April 19, 1943, when a…