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.

Farewell to an early and steadfast friend of The National WWII Museum. 

The final liberation of the Philippines at the end of World War II released Filipinos from years of torment—but recognition of their courage and sacrifice was slow in coming.

The allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944, including the capture of Carentan by American airborne troops, helped facilitate the destruction of German forces in northwest Europe.