World War II Chapters

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.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer continues to speak out against the German government. He helps smuggle Jews to Switzerland and joins a plot to kill Hitler.

With the "Night of Broken Glass" in mind, Dietrich Bonhoeffer continues to speak out against the German government. He helps smuggle Jews to Switzerla...

Bletchely Park has honored Alan Turing with this life-sized statute, created by Stephen Kettle. The work was commissioned by Sidney E. Frank, an Ameri...

More than 160,000 Allied troops land on heavily fortified French beaches. The heroic events at Normandy serve to alter the course of history.

Despite Japan's success at the Pearl Harbor attack, American fuel storage, power plant and Navy repair yard remain unharmed and fully functional.

Nazis killed Bonhoeffer at the Flossenburg concentration camp because he would not be silent about the wrongdoings of Hitler and the Nazis.

Nazis kill Bonhoeffer at Flossenburg concentration camp because he speaks against racial prejudice and is implicated in a plot against Hitler.

At Flossenburg, a Nazi concentration camp, everyone knew the words a soldier spoke to a condemned prisoner: Make ready and come with us. On Su...

The Sullivan Brothers give their all, and live-on in posters which remind U.S. citizens to give the war effort all they can.

Japanese anti-aircraft damage Super Man over Nauru, and bomb the island of Funafuti. Zamp and his crew use Green Hornet for a search and rescue missio...

A Soviet sub hit the Wilhelm Gustloff with three torpedoes.

Japan surrenders on August 14, 1945, just eight days after the US drops an atom bomb on Hiroshima.

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