September 1

Warsaw, Poland • September 1, 1939 Eighty-six years ago World War II in Europe began on this date in 1939 in Danzig (now the present-day Polish city of Gdańsk) when the elderly German training ship Schles­wig-Hol­stein, under the guise of a cere­monial visit to the city, bom­barded Poland’s naval base in Danzig harbor. After a…

Warsaw, Poland · September 1, 1939 World War II in Europe began on this date in 1939 in Danzig (now the present-day Polish city of Gdańsk) when the Ger­man training ship Schles­wig-Hol­stein, under the guise of a cere­monial visit to the city, bom­barded Poland’s naval base in Danzig har­bor. After a fierce day­long fight Danzig…