To ensure that “justice” was done at Nuremberg, American occupation officials set German war criminals free decades ahead of schedule.

Part III of the story of the Hesse Heist tells the story of the discovery and theft of the jewels.

This article looks at the experiences of four Black GIs—two in the European theater and two in the Pacific theater—in the Quartermaster Corps, the Army’s chief logistics branch.

Thanks to a manuscript Beck wrote while hiding out in France in 1944, we know much of the story of this American fighter pilot.

Robert Riskin, head of the Bureau of Motion Pictures, was responsible for creating Projections of America, a documentary film series that became one of the most important propaganda initiatives of World War II.

What transpired in Spain in 1936-37 was not only a civil war but a social revolution.

Part II of the story of the Hesse Heist focuses on the fate of the Hessen family and their estate.

“How sad it is to think of the touching veneration with which thousands and thousands of people have stood gazing at these pictures. . .and to see them now in unknown hands, victims, they too, of a war that uproots and beats down everything.” -Cesare Fasola

On July 16, 1946, a US Army tribunal at Dachau sentenced 46 members of the Waffen SS to death for crimes committed against Allied POWs and civilians.

The life of the king who ruled during both World War I and World War II and participated in the rise and fall of Italian Fascism.

Tom Czekanski recalls the story his father Alphonse told him about the friendly fire incident in Sicily.

On June 9, 2021, the Museum hosted Leah Garrett, PhD for a webinar on her latest book, X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II. She answered more of the audience’s questions below.