USS Mason was the first US Navy fleet vessel crewed by a majority of African American sailors.

On May 16, 1944, when SS men arrived in the Romani section of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Roma refused to leave their barracks and armed themselves for a fight to the death. 

Easy Company, 307th Infantry, assaulted Okinawa’s Ishimmi Ridge on May 17, 1945, beginning days of isolation and nightmarish suffering.

This conversation with Patricia Heberer-Rice, PhD, focuses on the Nazi T-4 program for the murder of the disabled and the 1945 trial connected to Hadamar, one of the killing centers.

From the beginning, this was to be a different kind of war—a war not only of conquest but also of annihilation.