On January 20, 1942, a group of Nazi leaders met to coordinate a continent-wide genocide.

As the leader of Einsatzgruppe D, Otto Ohlendorf was responsible for the murder of 90,000 Soviet Jews, Roma, and Communists.

The members of the Institute for Social Research made vital contributions to a “culture of resistance” against Nazism.

Seeing the cemetery for the German war dead at Futa Pass was a stark reminder of the human cost of defeating fascism.

The construction of a democratic order in Japan during the American occupation was one of the more significant outcomes of the conflict.

There is insufficient attention paid to the long history of the Roma within European culture.

George Washington Biggs devoted most of his adult life to causes greater than himself.

In late September 1940, the German-Jewish intellectual, Walter Benjamin, embarked on a dangerous and ultimately ill-fated journey across the Pyrenees to escape the Nazis.

In 1945 the American intellectual, Norman Cousins, was one of the first to raise terrifying questions for humanity about the successful splitting of the atom.

The Soviets inflicted terrible brutality on their Japanese captives.