“I’m sorry coach, but I can’t play this game.” A star quarterback had pulled Coach Norbert Ehrenfreund aside just as the championship game was about to kick off. It was autumn of 1945. The war in Europe and Japan was over, and U.S. soldiers were still stationed in...
After four days of fighting near the end of WWII in Europe, on April 20, 1945, Nuremberg fell to the U.S. Army. It was Adolf Hitler’s birthday. Nuremberg was the Nazis “shrine city,” home to annual Party Rallies in a huge stadium where Hitler announced to cheering...
View Recording of our November, 2020 live event. Take a virtual trip to France in World War II, where the Nazis stole 87 million bottles of Champagne and 1.17 billion bottles of wine. Award-winning authors Don and Petie Kladstrup tell us how vintners secretly yet...
Time is the most precious commodity a teacher has. Watch our recorded webinar to learn how you can use the Nuremberg trials as a framework to teach 20th century history more efficiently and maximize your classroom hours.During this webinar, we introduced the Courtroom...
The Nazis murdered millions of innocent men, women, children — even infants. What could make ordinary people participate in, or even just tolerate, such evil? It’s impossible to grasp why people committed such acts of extraordinary evil without understanding both the...
What was it like to research Nuremberg before the web existed? This is the question I asked Northwestern University scholar Francesca Gaiba, author of the only book about simultaneous interpretation at world’s first international trial. She began her research in...
My parents were children of the Great Depression, a time when economic hardship was the norm and thriftiness a habit carried forward. In addition to scrimping with money, the “Silent Generation” was also scant on information sharing. Case in point: my 89-year-old mom...
A school district in Wisconsin said the First Amendment prevented it from punishing students in this picture, in which many are making what appears to be a Nazi salute. Source: Peter Gust, via Associated PressDave FriptHistory Teacher Emeritus, Latin School of...
