Lunchbox Lecture: Jeremy Black
The prolific author and historian is joined in conversation by the Museum's Rob Citino. The topic: "Why the Allies won."
The prolific author and historian is joined in conversation by the Museum's Rob Citino. The topic: "Why the Allies won."
African American truck drivers of the Red Ball Express kept American units supplied in the race across France during the summer and fall of 1944.
Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazi regime persecuted Roma across Europe, killing over 250,000 Romani people and sterilizing around 2,500.
In 1945, The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Station Chief Allen Dulles in Switzerland negotiated the early surrender of German forces in Italy and Austria days before the final surrender of Germany, saving many lives.
In this column, journalist Ernie Pyle describes the bombing of London in late December 1940 as “the most hateful, most beautiful single scene” he had ever witnessed as the city was “stabbed with fire” by the German Luftwaffe.