This book is more than just a document – it is a suggestive creation of an image of a ruined city that had a powerful impact on the collective memory and was cultivated by the propaganda of the Polish ...

The Nike monument is one of the most recognizable symbols of Warsaw, even though it went through a move from the representative Theatre Square to the East-West thoroughfare. The monument is 21 metres ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Warsaw city councilors have banned a 1945 monument of Polish-Soviet World War II brotherhood in arms from being returned to its place in a city square. The move, a reversal of ...

A photographic highlight selected by the picture desk. On 17 January 1945, Warsaw was liberated from the Germans by the Red Army and the 1st Polish Army. They found a completely devastated city. 2,000 ...

In the words of one soldier, Warsaw was ‘a phantom city’. Photo: public domain / Wikicommons. 80 years ago, on Jan. 17, 1945, Soviet and Polish military formations entered Warsaw bringing an end to ...

The second world war did not end with Hitler's suicide in the bunker. The liberation of eastern Europe in 1944-45 was only rarely a heroic prelude to healing and renewal. The abiding symbol of ...

The plane slowly descends from white clouds and sweeps over a panorama of a city destroyed by the Nazis: the skeletons of bombed bridges jutting from a quiet river, the empty walls of burned-out ...