Global arms giants hit record $1 trillion in revenue, fuelled by Ukraine and Gaza wars
An increase in national defence spending also contributed to a surge in sales for the world’s largest arms-makers. Arms sales grew by 5.9 per cent to reach a record $1 … Continue reading
The Blueprint of Destruction: Zamość and the Eastern Plan
Operation Zamość was one of the most brutal and least known German actions of the war, a deliberate campaign of ethnic cleansing designed to erase an entire Polish region and … Continue reading
Little Auschwitz
November 28, 1942 Reichsführer of Germany Heinrich Himmler issued an order to create a “Little Auschwitz” or German Death / Work Camp for Polish Children in Łódź on a separate … Continue reading
Historical silence becomes a second death
Edward Reid I write about Polish history not to compare tragedies or measure one nation’s suffering against another, but because silence becomes a second death. When a nation loses six … Continue reading
Soviets ”liberation” of Poland
After the Soviets invaded Poland on September 17th, 1939, the Polish government declared: “Without a formal declaration of war, the Soviet Union invaded Poland, violating international law and Poland’s sovereignty.” … Continue reading
On this day, 17 September in 1939, a second dagger was thrust into the heart of Poland.
At dawn on September 17, 600,000 Soviet soldiers, backed by tanks and planes, crossed the eastern frontier, fulfilling the secret terms of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. Poland, already bleeding from the … Continue reading
Father Maximilian Kolbe
Edward Reid – on Facebook History remembers certain names, not because they were the only ones who acted with courage, but because their stories managed to survive the silence of … Continue reading
“The first casualty of war is truth”
The phrase, attributed in various forms to Samuel Johnson, Hiram Johnson, and Arthur Ponsonby, finds its fullest embodiment in the fate of Poland during and after the Second World War. … Continue reading
Slandered in Silence: The Wound of Denied Memory
There is a wound deeper than suffering. It is the wound of suffering that is later denied, misrepresented, or weaponized against the sufferer. It is not just pain, it is … Continue reading
Massacre of Brzostowica Mała
The Brzostowica Mała massacre occurred on 18 September 1939, the day after the start of the Soviet invasion of eastern Poland. During that period, a number of anti-state, communist-led revolts … Continue reading
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