World War II Archives

Tracer fire on the Finnish-Soviet border during the Winter War.

Social Justice

The Nazi Interrogator Who Revealed the Value of Kindness

Thanks in part to the work of Hanns Scharff and a slew of studies on interrogation techniques, we know it's best to be genuinely friendly no matter who you're trying to get information out of.

Eric Horowitz

News in Brief

Pentagon Finally Overhauls Effort to Identify Its Missing

The restructuring promises to address many of the problems laid out in a recent ProPublica and NPR investigation.

Megan McCloskey

News in Brief

4 Ways to Really Fix the Pentagon’s Effort to ID 83,000 Missing Service Members

Changes must go beyond bureaucracy to update the scientific approach and embrace outside help.

Megan McCloskey

News in Brief

How You Can Help Find Someone Missing in Action

John Eakin shares what he learned about tracking down the remains of his cousin who died in a World War II POW camp.

Megan McCloskey

Social Justice

In Defense of SPAM

For something that's often never been consumed by its detractors, why does the canned meat inspire so much disgust?

Jeremy Gordon

News in Brief

China Lost 14 Million People in World War II. Why Is This Forgotten?

Historian Rana Mitter believes a better understanding of China's future actions can follow a truer understanding of its World War II past.

Michael Todd

Economics

Nagasaki Wasn’t Supposed to Have Been the Target 67 Years Ago Today

Truman and Secretary of War Henry Stimson. “Stimson had to settle for persuading himself that the project was…

Marc Herman