Videos

Author Donald Miller interviewed Jessica Shattuck about her novel, The Women in the Castle. She explained how her family’s connection to Nazi Germany influenced her work, and how her researc…

Holocaust scholars discussed recent trends in scholarship as well as new findings. They stressed the brutality of the Nazi regime, and that the Holocaust and military fighting of World War I…

World War II scholar Hiroyuki Shindo explored a key turning point of the war in Asia, a Japanese defeat largely at the hands of British and Indian forces. The fighting took place in eastern …

Many people think of commanders like Eisenhower and soldiers storming the beaches of France when they think of D-Day. However, the full picture of the massive operation is much larger than t…

Historians James Holland and Richard Frank discussed two grim events that took place in June and July of 1944; a Hitler Youth division’s execution of Canadian POW’s at an 11th century Abbey …

Historians Tami Davis Biddle and Alexandra Richie talked about two lesser known World War II U.S. Army Air Force initiatives: Operation Matterhorn, which targeted mainland Japan and Japanese…

Historians David Stahel and Reina Pennington presented talks on two aspects of what the 1944 Soviet summer offensive called “Operation Bagration.” In June of 1944, the Red Army launched a ma…

The National World War II Museum hosted a conversation with author Chris Hartley about his book, The Lost Soldier: The Ordeal of a World War II GI from the Home Front to the Hürtgen Forest. …

National World War II Museum President and CEO Emeritus Nick Mueller talked about D-Day, the 1944 allied invasion of Normandy, France, during World War II. This talk was part of the Museum’s…

Keith Lowe discussed the different ways in which the public remembers World War II, and what can be learned from conflicting historic interpretations. Mr. Lowe is the author of The Fear and …

On November 11, 1921, the remains of an unidentified WWI soldier were interred at Arlington National Cemetery. Combat historian Patrick O’Donnell explained how the soldier’s remains were cho…

On November 20, 1943, 18,000 U.S. Marines landed on the Pacific island of Tarawa, occupied by Japan. After three days of combat, more than 1,000 U.S. troops had died and about 2,000 were wou…

Author James Scott described General Douglas MacArthur’s return to the Philippines during World War II, the Japanese resistance and the atrocities committed against the Filipino civilians. M…

In this program, we heard from historians about the World War II commanders whose World War I experiences shaped them as leaders. This talk was part of a three-day conference hosted by the N…

Historians Rick Atkinson and Richard Frank talked about two World War II battles -  Hurtgen Forest and Peleliu, which both resulted in high American casualties. They talked about whether the…

University of Cambridge international history professor David Reynolds compared how five countries separately viewed World War I before the second World War began, and argued how perceptions…

Cathal Nolan explored how history assesses the victories and defeats of war. He is the author of The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost. This talk was part of the…

National World War II Museum senior historian Robert Citino and James Holland, author of “Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War II” discussed the actions that led to Germany’s World …

Historians discuss the Japanese strategy in World War II from 1943-1945. This talk was part of the National World War II Museum’s 2018 annual international conference.

Ann Todd talked about her book, OSS Operation Black Mail: One Woman’s Covert War Against the Imperial Japanese Army, which chronicles Elizabeth “Betty” McIntosh’s 18 months of psychological …