With Germany upset about how WWI ended and Japan upset about a lack-of-access to much-needed natural resources, another war sent the world into chaos between 1939-1945. Stories in this collection are about some of those events.
Thinking that he was only in danger if he were caught by the Nazis who occupied his country, during World War II, Erling Storrusten (a Norwegian) is s...
His story featured in "The Pacific," Eugene Sledge describes the harrowing battle of Okinawa. Finally ending in June of 1945, it is one of the most co...
Eugene Bondurant Sledge describes the horror of the World War II battle at Pelelieu, east of Okinawa.
Not long after the Nazi invasion of Norway in April of 1940, an American journalist, Leland Stowe, wrote an article for TIME magazine about the events...
WARNING: THIS CLIP EXPLAINS HOW HITLER AND HIS REGIME DEVELOPED "THE FINAL SOLUTION" AGAINST JEWISH PEOPLE. Proceed with caution.
The U.S. government did not allow African-Americans to join the U.S. Marine Corps until 1942. The first black Marine was Howard P. Perry.
The deaths of all five Sullivan Brothers caused a national sensation when word of the tragedy was finally released two months after it happened. The ...
Early investigative reports, regarding the disaster of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17, reveal that it was likely destroyed by a surface-to-air (SAM) m...
During Germany's occupation of Norway, during World War II, the Norwegians suffered great hardships. Beyond the disastrous occupation itself, many peo...
The railway carriage in which Germany surrendered to France, at the end of World War I, had been housed in a French museum.
Franklin D. Roosevelt contracts (1921) and deals with Polio until his death (1945).
Were crematoria, at Nazi camps, used to dispose of bodies of people who were gassed at these camps? The issue is still debated, particularly by indivi...
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