Tensions arose almost immediately in Buchenwald between liberators and liberated.

As part of the March 1942 raid, British commandos were to disrupt vital harbor facilities.

The conclusion of World War II in Europe brought in its wake the largest movement of peoples and populations in European history.

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

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.