On Sept, 1, 1939, German battleship Schleswig-Holstein is shelling the Polish Army military outpost at Westerplatte, in Danzig (Gdansk, Poland), the Second World War begins. (Fox/Movietone) ...

Schleswig-Holstein was 418 ft 8 in (127.60 m) long, 72 ft 10 in (22.20 m) wide at the beam, had a draft of 26 ft 11 in (8.21 m), and a full-load displacement of 14,218 metric tons.

September 1st, 1939. German battleship Schleswig-Holstein marks the start of World War II by firing on the garrison stationed at the Westerplatte peninsula in Poland ...

Seventy years ago next week—at 4:45 a.m. on Sept. 1, 1939, to be precise—the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein began to shell the Polish military base at Westerplatte. For the Germans, for ...

GDANSK, Poland — On Sept. 1, 1939, the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein bombarded a Polish garrison off Danzig, a free city, setting off World War II.From the ruins that remained six years ...