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# World War II

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## World War II


* ![Albert Einstein With Displaced Children From Concentration Camps 1949](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd6e3232abf282454/698a0b2c4ee26224223172fe/albert-einstein-birthday.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Mar 13, 2020  
## [Albert Einstein's 'Magnificent Birthday Gift'](https://time.com/5795646/albert-einstein-birthday-pi-day/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by Olivia B. Waxman
* ![IWO JIMA FLAG RAISING](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt70b4c3dd135a3dff/698a0a86656a3f468fbd9b36/iwo-jima-flag-raising.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 21, 2020  
## [The False Hope of the Iwo Jima Flag-Raising Photo](https://time.com/5788381/iwo-jima-photo/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by Matthew Pressman and James J. Kimble
* ![World War Two U-Boat attack](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteeeebf25f6626120/698a0962b3fce353170c63d6/uboat.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 28, 2020  
## [A Nazi U-Boat Tactic Stumped Allied Forces — Until a Retired British Naval Officer Designed a Game to Reveal How It Worked](https://time.com/5772665/uboat-wargames/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by Simon Parkin
* ![German Chancellor Merkel Visits Auschwitz Concentration Camp](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltce872a4263acc47f/698a095b97cdff07626ba3b6/merkel.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 27, 2020  
## [Germany Is Often Praised for Facing Up to Its Nazi Past. But Even There, the Memory of the Holocaust Is Still Up for Debate](https://time.com/5772360/german-holocaust-memory/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by Jacob S. Eder
* ![Preview For Sixtieth Anniversary Of The Liberation Of Auschwitz](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta6bbb4bd92e59162/698a0943929fadd61dbf595e/auschwitz.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 24, 2020  
## [What Translating a Firsthand Account of Life in Auschwitz Taught Me About the Language of Suffering](https://time.com/5770574/translating-auschwitz-memoir/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by David Colmer  
* ![Deported Jewish Children Walking](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt48d362a066bff893/698a090586f68eb58d6ee372/GettyImages-543893646.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 22, 2020  
## [A Surprisingly Large Percentage of Young French People Don't Know About the Holocaust, Study Finds](https://time.com/5767184/holocaust-remembrance-france-survey/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by Olivia B. Waxman
* ![Britain Declares War](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta3ad5f8bc855d25e/698a08c7e76ad202d663717b/britain-declares.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 14, 2020  
## [Hundreds of Britons Volunteered for a Diary-Keeping Project in 1937\. They Left an Invaluable Record of World War II](https://time.com/5764204/wwii-home-front-britain/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by Julia Kelly
* ![Nazi Tanks in Libya](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0b7e9e61733d0c46/698a07da4ee2627233316d30/nazi-tanks.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 7, 2020  
## [How Methamphetamine Became a Key Part of Nazi Military Strategy](https://time.com/5752114/nazi-military-drugs/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by Peter Andreas
* ![SS Eiger im Hafen von Lissabon um 1943](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2391fae16c213eab/698a07dce76ad262e2636fdd/lisbon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 3, 2020  
## [Why the U.S. Sent Librarians Undercover to Gather Intelligence During World War II](https://time.com/5752115/world-war-ii-librarians/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by Kathy Peiss
* ![Hollywood Sign Area a Suicide Site](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltce910b83a8df8d52/698a07dc011682cf6297eb94/hollywood.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 2, 2020  
## [Refugees Fleeing Nazi Germany Reshaped Hollywood. This Forgotten Woman Helped Make It Possible](https://time.com/5752128/salka-viertel-hollywood-refugees/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by Donna Rifkind  
* ![USS Arizona](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt548f54490d17f231/698a070d86f68e22c66ee053/uss-arizona.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 6, 2019  
## [What Happened to USS Arizona?](https://time.com/5745058/uss-arizona-after-pearl-harbor/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by Sanya Mansoor
* ![Japanese Internment Camp](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb074471baa6f74ea/698a06f5011682050497e9f3/camp.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 4, 2019  
## [The WWII Incarceration of Japanese Americans Stretched Beyond U.S. Borders](https://time.com/5743555/wwii-incarceration-japanese-latin-americans/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by Erika Lee
* ![Gypsy \(Sinti and Roma\) Deportation](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c144e09af7bd7df/698a0552096a9400d66a7397/roma-train.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 12, 2019  
## [The Persecution of the Roma Is Often Left Out of the Holocaust Story. Victims’ Families Are Fighting to Change That](https://time.com/5719540/roma-holocaust-remembrance/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by Rachael Bunyan
* ![DOJ](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt42c3f010367ee8d7/698a05b497cdff23ae6b9d43/doj.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 12, 2019  
## [The Man Who Died Pursuing Nazi Criminals More Than Four Decades After World War II Ended](https://time.com/5724452/office-special-investigation-austria-history/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by Debbie Cenziper
* ![Auschwitz](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd50fb07e7d82336a/698a04e14ee2623e393167d1/auschwitz.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Oct 25, 2019  
## [How Israel’s Justice System Dealt With Alleged Jewish Collaborators in Concentration Camps—And Why That Still Matters Today](https://time.com/5710303/nazi-collaborator-trials/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by Dan Porat

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