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WWII
Jessica Chastain Risks Her Life to Save Others in the Trailer for
The Zookeeper's Wife
By Eliza Berman
What to Know About the Swedish Holocaust Hero Who Was Just Declared Dead
By Lily Rothman
The Female War Correspondent Who Scooped the World
By Dominique Rowe / Hong Kong
Defying the Nazis VR: Experience a Dramatic 1940 Escape From Europe
By TIME Staff
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WWII
Watch the Trailer for Christopher Nolan's WWII Epic
Dunkirk
The trailer was set to be released Friday alongside the film "Suicide Squad"
By Daniel White
August 4, 2016
A Painter's View of World War II
A new exhibit at the National WWII Museum highlights the work of Tom Lea, who drew and painted the conflict for LIFE Magazine
By Lily Rothman and Liz Ronk
July 15, 2016
Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy Hunt a High-Ranking Nazi in
Anthropoid
Clip
The movie tells the true story of the plot to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich
By Eliza Berman
July 6, 2016
Rare Documents on Polish Jewish History Available Online 70 Years After Kielce Pogrom
The Joint Distribution Committee files were confiscated in Warsaw in 1949. Decades later, those documents are online and searchable
By Lily Rothman
July 1, 2016
What One Photographer Saw at the Battle of Saipan
American forces fought for control of the island during World War II, in a grueling battle that lasted from June 15 to July 9, 1944
By Lily Rothman and Liz Ronk
June 15, 2016
Jewelry Hidden in Mug at Auschwitz Discovered
Museum workers won't be able to identify the owner
By Justin Worland
May 19, 2016
What Nazi Hunters Reveal About the Way We See History
A new book goes inside a chapter of history that's about to end
By Lily Rothman
May 10, 2016
See the Religious Text the U.S. Government Printed for Concentration-Camp Survivors
It's considered to be the only edition of the Talmud ever printed by a national government
By Lily Rothman
May 5, 2016
Author of 'Flags of Our Fathers' Now Suspects His Dad Was Not in Iwo Jima Photo
Historians now say a figure in the photo was misidentified
By Charlotte Alter
May 3, 2016
World War II Shows Why We Need the Merchant Marine
The U.S. is currently experiencing a shortage of merchant mariners—even though we know from WWII that their service is crucial
By William Geroux
April 21, 2016
Watch: Inside the Making of
Shoah
See an exclusive clip from the Oscar-nominated documentary 'Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah'
By Lily Rothman
February 17, 2016
See Photos of American Soldiers Courting English Girls During World War II
As Valentine's Day approaches, a look at a love that transcended borders
By Eliza Berman
February 12, 2016
How Adolf Hitler Turned a Year in Jail Into a Step Toward Power
Read an excerpt from Peter Ross Range's new book '1924: The Year That Made Hitler'
By Peter Ross Range
January 26, 2016
The Race to Prosecute the Last Surviving Nazis
The legal standard that allows such cases is less than a decade old
By Eliza Gray and Simon Shuster
January 20, 2016
'Comfort Women' Were Not Sex Slaves: Japanese Foreign Minister
He prefers the term
comfort women
By Mark Rivett-Carnac
January 18, 2016
Taiwan Urges Japan to Apologize for 'Comfort Women'
Taipei says it wants talks with Tokyo to secure a similar resolution
By Mark Rivett-Carnac
December 30, 2015
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