Veteran Affairs Canada, Submitted In 1939, Germany invaded Poland. This started more than six years of bitter fighting in the ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Sept. 1, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, an ...

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.

Imagine it’s 1939 and you are one of 80 American missionaries with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints serving over 5,000 miles away in Germany as Adolf Hitler’s army begins to close the ...