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The Casablanca Conference
January 14-24, 1943
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Gallantry against Great Odds: LTC George Marshall and Operation RESERVIST
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Prelude to Liberation: Genesis of American Amphibious Assault in the ETO
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“Black Thursday” October 14, 1943: The Second Schweinfurt Bombing Raid
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An Exercise in Depravity: The Establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto
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Unsung Witnesses of the Battle of Stalingrad
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Stalingrad: Experimentation, Adaptation, Implementation
Eighty years ago, the Red Army managed to stop, contain, and ultimately defeat the largest German army on the Eastern Front.
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A Man for No Seasons
In World War II, Seydlitz was a skilled field commander, rising through division and corps command, distinguishing himself at Demyansk and Stalingrad.
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The Last Days of the Dachau Concentration Camp
For the last several days of its existence, before soldiers of the United States Seventh Army arrived, Dachau was a small, self-enclosed universe of decay and death.
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A Shocking Level of Brutality and Degradation: Dachau in Wartime
Wartime reshaped life and death in the Dachau concentration camp in fundamental ways.
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Dachau, the “Model” Concentration Camp, 1933-39
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Preserving the “Flame of French Resistance”: Charles de Gaulle’s June 1940 Addresses
Charles de Gaulle’s June 1940 addresses called on the French nation to continue the fight against Nazi Germany.