Many Americans greeted the news of the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima with jubilation. Beginning shortly after the war, however, a number of prominent US military leaders began to question the bomb's use.
Julia engages with The National WWII Museum well beyond her Saturday commitment with the Victory Corps.
Iconic entertainer of the Jazz Age, famous for her risqué performances, Josephine Baker responded to the start of World War II by becoming a spy for the French Resistance. Known as the “Creole Goddess” of France, Baker used her celebrity to gain access to high-ranking Axis officials.
WWII leadership lessons from the Museum’s Institute for the Study of War and Democracy.
This Paramount picture musical film—which features an all-star cast including Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton, Veronica Lake, and Fred MacMurray—was made during World War II as a morale booster, with the specific intent of entertaining the troops overseas and civilians back home and to encourage fundraising, as well as to show the studios' patriotism.
Omer Bartov’s Anatomy of a Genocide is a fascinating and cautionary examination of how genocide can take root at the local level—turning neighbors, friends, and even family members against one another—as seen through the eastern European border town of Buczacz during World War II.