How the strategic location of the diamond-shaped peninsula proved too much for the Germans.

The Freikorps were nothing if not the shock troops, the advance guard, of the Third Reich.

On June 6, 2020, The National WWII Museum will commemorate the 76th anniversary of the D-Day invasion and celebrate the 20th anniversary of its opening as The National D-Day Museum in 2000.

The Nazis created at least 44,000 camps, including ghettos and other sites of incarceration, between 1933 and 1945. The camps served various functions, from imprisoning "enemies of the state" to serving as way stations in larger deportation schemes to murdering people in gas chambers. 

Victory gardens became (and remain) an iconic image of life on the Home Front during World War II.