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.

The story of the Hesse Heist, the theft of royal German jewels, delves into the wartime story of the Nazi elite.

Join The National WWII Museum as we commemorate the surrender of Nazi Germany and V-E Day by taking a look back at the events of the year after surrender and how they shaped the modern world with Dr. Rob Citino, Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian and the Executive Director, The Institute for the Study of War and Democracy.

A real world spy story fit for the silver screen.

Tensions arose almost immediately in Buchenwald between liberators and liberated.