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Photographs of my recent trip to the Normandy beaches in France.

Photographs from my recent visit to the Palace of Versailles in Versailles, France.

Photographs from my recent visit to Churchill's Cabinet War Rooms and the Imperial War Museum in London, UK.

This video considers the 1943 Posen Conference, a high level meeting of Gauleiters, Reichsleiters, SS Generals and Higher Police Leaders in which the Holocaust was formally revealed to them. Additional Reading: Richard J. Evans, "The Third Reich at War" Dietrich Orlow, "The Nazi Party, 1919-1945: The Complete History" Matthias Schmidt, "Albert Speer - The End of a Myth" Gitta Sereny, "Albert Sp...

This video considers the proposed invasion of France in 1942, "Operation Sledgehammer." Additional Reading: Field Marshall Lord Alanbrooke, "War Diaries: 1939-1945" Andrew Roberts, "Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945" David L. Roll, "George Marshall: Defender of the Republic" Jean Edward Smith, "Eisenhower in War and Peace"

This video considers the engagement of universities in Germany under the NSDAP. Additional Reading: Michael Burleigh, "The Third Reich: A New History" Thomas Childers, "The Third Reich: A History" Robert P. Erickson, "Complicity in the Holocaust: Churches and Universities in Nazi Germany" Richard Evans, "The Third Reich in Power" Richard Grunberger, "The 12-Year Reich: A Social History of Nazi ...

This video considers the sinking of the Royal Oak at Scapa Flow by German U-Boat U-47, commaned by Gunther Prien. Additional Reading: Antony Beevor, "The Second World War" Winston Churchill, "Their Finest Hour" James Holland, "The Rise of German, 1939-1941: The War in the West" Lawrence Patterson, "The U-Boat War: A Global History, 1939-1945" Philips Payson O'Brien, "How the War was Won" Andrew...

This video considers Adolf Hitler's abortive 1923 Beer Hall Putsch in Munich. Additional Reading: Michael Burleigh, "The Third Reich: A New History" Thomas Childers, "The Third Reich: A History" Richard Evans, "The Coming of the Third Reich" Harold J. Gordon, "Hitler and the Beer Hall Putsch" Ian Kershaw, "Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris." John Toland, "Adolf Hitler"

This video considers the growing discontent within Hitler's SA (Stormtroopers) after he came to power, and the earlier Stennes Revolt against the Berlin NSDAP. Additional Reading: Michael Burleigh, "The Third Reich: A New History" Mark Carey, "Hitler's Gay Traitor: The Story of Ernst Röhm, Chief of Staff of the S.A." Thomas Childers, "The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" Richard J. Evans...

This video considers Operation Cobra, the U.S. Army breakout from the Normandy beachhead. Additional Reading: Peter Caddick-Adams, "Sand and Steel: The D-Day Invasion and the liberation of France" Rick Atkinson, "The Guns at Last Light" Mark Calhoun, "General Lesley J. McNair: Unsung Architect of the U.S. Army" James Holland, "Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France" H.Paul Je...

This video considers the period immediately following Adolf Hitler's appointment as Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. Additional Reading: Alan Bullock, "Hitler: A Study in Tyranny" Michael Burleigh, "The Third Reich: A New History" Thomas Childers, "The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" Richard Evans, "The Coming of the Third Reich" Ian Kershaw, "Hitler: 1889-1936, Hubris" Jay Locken...

This video considers the first battle between the U.S. Army and the German Wehrmacht in North Africa in 1943. Additional Reading: Rick Atkinson, "An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943" Martin Blumenson, "Kasserine Pass" David Fraser, "Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel" Orr Kelly, "Meeting the Fox: The Allied Invasion of Africa from Operation Torch to Kasserine P...

This video considers the anti-Semitism in Germany during the First World War, and how the government attempted and failed to prove that Jews were not really participating in the front lines. Additional Reading: Rodger Chickering, "Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918" Thomas Childers, "The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" Amos Elon, "The Pity of It All: A History of the Jews in ...

This video considers the constitution and intended purpose of the German panzer division in World War II. Additional Reading: Bevin Alexander, "Inside the Nazi War Machine: How Three Generals Unleashed Hitler's Blitzkrieg Upon the World" Len Deighton, "Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk" Russell Hart, "Guderian: Panzer Pioneer or Myth Maker?" Joseph Maiolo, "Cry Havoc: H...

Adolf Hitler in Prison (1924)

National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (23 March 2023)

Soviet Counterattack Before Moscow (5 December 1941)

Joseph Goebbels' Total War Speech (18 February 1943)

George C. Marshall and the Selective Service Act

The German Labor Front (DAF)

U. S. Army Museum of Hawaii (23 March 2023)

World War II - Unit XV: The Consequences of the Second World War

World War II - Unit XIV: The Fall of Imperial Japan

World War II - Unit XIII: The Fall of the Third Reich

World War II - Unit XII: Normandy

World War II - Unit XI: The Italian Campaign

World War II - Unit X: The War at Sea & The War in the Air

Pearl Harbor National Memorial (20 March 2023)

World War II - Unit IX: The Holocaust & Japanese Atrocities