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WWII

An illustration of a person holding a book
Global Satire
The writer who published a satirical magazine while hiding in a Dutch home during WWII
A officer lays a poppy wreath
Top of The World
75 years since WWII Victory in Europe; DOJ drops charges against Flynn; LGBT helplines see surge
A fence strung with signs and paper cranes
Immigration
Immigrant detention centers are a grim reminder of Japanese American history
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, wearing a white jacket, and French President Emmanuel Macron, in a dark suit, are shown standing next to each other at the Paris Peace Forum.
Global Politics
Macron, Merkel defend multilaterism as Trump avoids peace forum
Former barrack turned into a house in nearby town of Parker, Arizona.
Conflict
Japanese Americans weren’t the only US citizens housed in camps
Dutch Minister of Education Ronald Plasterk looks at a facsimile of Anne Frank's dairy after a news conference in Amsterdam in 2009.
Culture
Who betrayed Anne Frank?
Excavating Henryk Ross’s buried box of negatives and documents in the ghetto, 1945. Henryk Ross (Polish, 1910–1991)
Arts
Unearthing photos and memories of life in the Lodz ghetto
November 1945. Hiroshima, Japan.
Global Politics
Photos: Hiroshima after the atomic bomb
Leo Goldberger and his family came from Czechoslovakia, but they moved to Denmark before World War II. That decision was the reason they escaped the Holocaust.
Global Politics
Danes helped him escape the Holocaust. Today, he says Denmark should do more for refugees.
Cows stand in a meadow in front of a 10.5cm gun at the former artillery fort of the Swiss Army in the town of Faulensee.
Culture
That picturesque barn in the Swiss countryside might be a former Army bunker
An air raid shelter in Clapham South in the 1940s.
Culture
London’s forgotten network of massive underground air raid shelters is being found again
Martin Niemöller at the 8th World Youth Festival.
Culture
Trump, Martin Niemöller and the Washington Post
(Center Front) Mirjam Geismar de Zoete; (Center Left) father Chaim de Zoete, with daughter Judith; (Center Right) mother Sophia de Zoete, with daughter Hadassah.
Conflict
This Jewish couple survived the Holocaust hidden behind a church organ. Their daughter — also in hiding — had no idea.
US troops wade ashore on D-Day. Belfrage is alleged to have passed information to the Soviets about the Allies plans to open a second front in World War II.
Global Politics
New documents reveal this British WWII spy may have been one of the most important agents for the Soviets
Hiroshima Peace Memorial.
Conflict
Respect: A young tour guide, a Hiroshima survivor and a baton passed
The Bomb Sight Project locates where German bombs fell on London during an eight-month period in World War II.
Conflict
This map shows the locations where bombs fell on London during World War II