He played a role in the celebrated Allied operation to preserve European artworks and cultural treasures stolen by the Nazis.
Tag: World War II (1939-45)
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Christopher Nolan on J. Robert Oppenheimer and His Contradictions
The biopic director argues that the physicist who oversaw creation of the atomic bomb was both the most important person who ever lived and hopelessly naïve.
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A Current War Collides With the Past: Remnants of World War II in Ukraine
World War II has been an ideological battlefield in today’s war in Ukraine, and it is cropping up on the actual battlefield as well.
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A Tangled Past Complicates Poland’s Welcome to Ukrainian Refugees
Polish memories of ethnic pogroms by Ukrainian nationalists in the 1940s jostle with the trauma left by Russia and its war in Ukraine.
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The Final Fight for Black Sailors Known as the ‘Philadelphia 15’
Kicked out of the Navy in 1940 for publicly criticizing the racist abuse they suffered on their warship, 15 Black men were posthumously exonerated at the Pentagon on Friday.