With a glimpse of Stalin's grave in Red Square, a brutal legacy rewinds. 

The M1942 jump jacket and trousers worn by Lieutenant Alphonse Czekanski for the Normandy invasion join the Museum's displays. 

A French writer fleeing Paris in June 1940 has a nervous first encounter with the enemy. 

In a cemetery outside Warsaw, Marxist-Leninist theory meets the course of history. 

Leon Werth captures the chaos and uncertainty that preceded the Nazis into Paris.