Tag: World War II

In the first war, Joseph Gray used his art to reveal his fellow soldiers. In the next war, he used it to hide them.

On storytelling in the shadow of Chernobyl, U.S. military planes, and not-so-distant German history.

Nicole Chung talks with Kristi Yamaguchi about the cultural significance of her figure skating victory at the 1992 Olympics.

Emily Meg Weinstein considers the ways in which her grandfather’s less than heroic choices in love and war led to her existence.

When it came to gathering refugees, the waiting room of the U.S. consulate was probably the closest thing to Rick’s Café Américain.

In the village of Ponar, in present-day Lithuania, occupying Nazis shot nearly 100,000 people, then exhumed and burned the bodies in an effort to remove all traces of the atrocity. The prisoners forced to dig up and burn the bodies of their countrymen knew there was only one way to get out alive: escape.

Kathryn Tolbert reports on Japanese war brides — including her mother — who struggled to fit in in post-war America.

A man searches for the French doctor who saved his parents’ lives in a Budapest basement during World War II.

The end of divine rule in postwar Japan, and the absolute power of General MacArthur.

The story of the Nazis’ only concentration camp for women has long been obscured—partly by chance, but also by historians’ apathy towards women’s history. Sarah Helm writes about the camp, where the “cream of Europe’s women” were interned alongside its prostitutes, and members of the French resistance perished alongside Red Army prisoners of war.

The extraordinary life of Janet Vaughan, who changed our relationship with blood.

The story of Hollywood screenwriter Budd Schulberg’s unlikely collaboration with Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl.

Three months later, on October 27, 1943, Roosevelt turned his idea into a concrete proposal, formally asking Congress to enact legislation that would finance one year of educational or vocational training for all who served in World War II. Those deemed to have academic potential would be eligible for support for four years. “For many, […]

“My Father, the Good Nazi.” Philippe Sands, Financial Times