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.

On February 3, 1945, the US Army sent over 800 Black women overseas to England aboard the SS Ile de France. Their mission was unknown to them.

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.

On January 20, 1942, a group of Nazi leaders met to coordinate a continent-wide genocide.

A stalemate on the Gustav Line in January 1944 brought about one of the more controversial Allied decisions of Italian campaign.

As the leader of Einsatzgruppe D, Otto Ohlendorf was responsible for the murder of 90,000 Soviet Jews, Roma, and Communists.

On January 3, 1946, ardent fascist and Nazi propaganda broadcaster William “Lord Haw-Haw” Joyce was executed following his conviction for treason.

By the winter of 1945, millions of American military personnel were on the move, but they were not alone. More than 60,000 women wed by American servicemen during World War II hoped to leave their old homes behind and rejoin their husbands for a new life in the United States. However, for these “War Brides” restrictive American immigration policies posed a major challenge.

A Christmas classic, Miracle on 34th Street, provides a surprisingly realistic perspective on WWII refugees.