As World War II approached, schizophrenics became victims of an even greater human rights violation at the hands of the Third Reich.

The National WWII Museum announces Memory Wars: World War II at 75 and Beyond conference, a first-of-its-kind, virtual event taking place March 24 – 26 that will examine World War II’s place in public memory and how historians, filmmakers, media, memorials and museums help shape the legacy of the global conflict.

The National WWII Museum today announced its list of upcoming WWII educational tours for the spring 2019 season.

The Monuments Men Foundation today announced that its collection will have a new home at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans.

Just a few months after Adolf Hitler came to power in Nazi Germany and a full six years before World War II, German university students carried out an “Action Against the Un-German Spirit” targeting authors ranging from Helen Keller and Ernest Hemingway to Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. Their orchestrated book burnings across Germany would come to underscore German-Jewish writer Heinrich Heine’s 19th century warning, “where one burns books, one soon burns people.