Institute for the Study of War and Democracy Roundtable featuring Conrad C. Crane, PhD.

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.

The National World War II Museum observes the 69th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, December 2010.

Stutthof concentration camp was among the sites of horror caught up in this gruesome crescendo to Adolf Hitler’s war for racial supremacy.