World War Two

On 1 September, in 1939, without a declaration of war a German battleship opened fire on a Polish garrison.

Seventy-five years ago this week, people in Europe and most of the world woke up to ominous newspaper headlines: "German Army Attacks Poland; Cities Bombed, Port Blocked; Danzig is Accepted into Reich", "War! Nazi Bombs Rain on Polish Cities". This was the start of the Second World War.

Seventy-five years ago, on 23 August, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed a cooperation and non-aggression pact. The now infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact divided Europe and provided with its secret provisions an evil platform that set the stage for the Second World War. The Molotov-Ribbentrop P...

On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the 25th anniversary of the Baltic Way, the Baltic communities of Sweden, in co-operation with the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian Embassies, the Estonian Swedes Cultural Organisation and the Måndagsrörelsen (The Monday Move...

Over 70 people who saved Jews during World War Two have applied to be granted the status of freedom fighters in Lithuania. They became eligible to such a status after new amendments came into force a month and a half ago.

As Lithuania marks 70 years since the start of the guerilla war this summer, new initiatives are emerging in the country to pay tribute to the legacy of the "brothers of the forest", as anti-Soviet partisans were known, which has inspired many Lithuanians from artists to soldiers.

Artillery shells, mines and grenades are only a small part of dangerous explosives that prevented the work of laying the submarine power link from Lithuania to Sweden. Explosives were found in the Lithuanian territory during the work on the project. These explosives were neutralised by explosive ord...