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History's Heroes: Roger Bushell (1910 1944)
This website explores the lives of heroic ordinary people who made their mark on history. Features illustrated story on Roger Bushell, leader of the Great escape. Find out who he was, what he did, his achievements, and his legacy.
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: Prisoners at Home: Everyday Life in Japanese Internment Camps
This exhibition tells stories of everyday lives in Japanese Internment camps during World War II.
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Dad's World War Ii Prisoner of War Photo Taken at Dulag Luft
A great site which contains many stories about American POWs held at Stalag Luft 1 camp in Barth, Germany during World War 2. Examples include artwork and poetry done by the prisoners.
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National Park Service: Andersonville National Historic Site
The official website of Andersonville National Historic Site, or Camp Sumter, "One of the largest of many Confederate military prisons." This park serves to honor all American prisoners of war. Be sure to click on Teaching with Historic...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Auschwitz
On this comprehensive website is the history of Auschwitz. You can click on maps, photographs, personal histories, and film footage.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Concentration Camps: 1939 1942
Article summarizing the development and use of numerous concentration camps by the Nazis in the early years of World War II. The camps were used to provide forced labor, retain political prisoners, and any populations the Nazis wanted to...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Auschwitz: Chronology
Here you can find a chronology of events at Auschwitz from its construction to its liberation. Includes links to other concentration camps.
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Fire and Ice: The Winter War of Finland and Russia
A companion website to the film by the same name. Tells of the little known invasio. of Finland by Russia in the winter of 1939 that probably changed the course of WW II.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Nazi Medical Experiments
A description of the use of concentration camp prisoners for medical experimentation by the Nazis during World War II.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: Henry Wirz
From the Library of Congress comes the story of the hanging of Henry Wirz, former commander of the terrible Confederate prison in Andersonville, GA.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: 14 June 1940
The first transport of 728 Poles, political prisoners, was brought to the German Nazi Auschwitz camp from the Tarnow prison.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Sherman's March to the Sea, 1864
A map of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina showing the routes of Union General Sherman's 'March to the Sea’ from Atlanta to Savannah (November 15 to December 21, 1864), and his march to Raleigh. The map shows state capitals,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Sherman's March to the Sea, 1864
A map of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina showing the routes of Union General Sherman's 'March to the Sea’ from Atlanta to Savannah (November 15 to December 21, 1864), and his march to Raleigh. The map shows the area to the...
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Wild Geese: General Michael Corcoran
A five-part article about Michael Corcoran, an Irish immigrant who volunteered when Lincoln first issued a call for troops. Read about his actions at Bull Run, in a Southern prison camp, and his leadership of the Irish Brigade. This...
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp
Detailed facts and an overview of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp established in January 2002 by President George W. Bush to house Muslim militants and suspected Al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorists.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Gardelegen
Article about the massacre of concentration camp prisoners at the end of a "death march" in the Gardelegen region of Germany at the end of World War II.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Buchenwald
A description of the concentration camp system at Buchenwald, and the varied types of prisoners who were held there before and during World War II.
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Gas Van at Chelmno Death Camp
Photo of a gas van at Chelmno death camp in Poland, used to exterminate prisoners during World War II.
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Inside Gas Van at Chelmno Death Camp
Photo of inside a gas van, used as a gas chamber to exterminate prisoners at Chelmno death camp in Poland during World War II.