On April 21, 1946, two political parties united, creating a single, dominant party in what became East Germany.

On April 19, 1946, the League of Nations dissolved, ending 26 years of the existence of an organization which had proven incapable of preventing World War II.

“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.

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.