The importance of World War II to Jean-Paul Sartre’s life and thought is often overlooked.

One of two remaining WWII Medal of Honor recipients, Charles Coolidge, passed away on April 6, 2021 at the age of 99. He was awarded the Medal for his actions in France in 1944.

American personnel faced a humanitarian catastrophe when they liberated Buchenwald Concentration Camp. 

“The new year of the Second World War 1942 opened upon us in an entirely different shape for Britain.” -Prime Minister Winston Churchill

Geneviève Guilbaud has lived a life of remembrance, an existence always directed against the forgetting and trivialization of the horrors of Nazism.

During the Second World War, life changed dramatically for the people of Britain, including the Royal Family.

The shamrock is the symbol of Ireland and a recurring theme in The National WWII Museum’s collection.

Felice and Lilly’s story is one of contradictions. One a bohemian writer in the Jewish underground; the other wife to an ardent Nazi, a “good German” Hausfrau, and mother of four. The two women fell in love in wartime Berlin.

Churchill’s famed “Iron Curtain” speech ushered in the Cold War and made the term a household phrase.

The story of a swagger stick presented to T/3 John Sweitzer by his German prisoners.