From Franklin D. Roosevelt’s perspective in the White House, democracy was under attack overseas and at home in mid-1941.

A young New Zealander airman receives a Victoria Cross for his daring feats. 

Frank Kameny saw combat in Europe during the war, only to return home to face discrimination from the very country he served.

Though they resisted in many ways, Amsterdam’s Jewish population suffered immensely in World War II. 

As the anniversaries of Operations Barbarossa and Bagration approach, it is an opportune time to reexamine the immeasurably brutal war between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.