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The Virtual Tour

Our Virtual Tour--only a small fraction of the more than 6,000 objects on display--is intended to give an idea of the scope and comprehensiveness of the collection. Each area below represents a different collection of the museum.


Nazi Poster showing President Paul von Hindenburg sharing power with Adolf Hitler, 1933
Germany
In The Interwar Period


Adolf Hitler
and the Rise of Nazism


The German Military


A statue of the Eiffel Tower with a Nazi flag at the top, to celebrate the German takeover of France
The Munich Agreement
& the Fall of France

Wartime portrait of Churchill from the RAF officers' mess at Barnby Moor, Yorkshire
Winston Churchill

Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain

Suitcase Radio
Resistance


Occupied Europe


The Holocaust



Pearl Harbor and
the American Home Front


The U.S. War Effort


Italian Front
The Italian Front


The Russian Front


North Africa


D-Day, The Invasion of Normandy
D-Day: The Invasion of Normandy

The Rising Sun and Agression in the East
The Rising Sun and
Aggression in the East

American bond drive poster
The Pacific Front


First edition of Joe Rosenthal's famous picture at Mt. Suribachi
Iwo Jima

Sketch from POW diary, showing loneliness of POW life
Prisoners of War

Judy Garland, autograph photo
Everybody's War


Nazi wartime poster, decrying the violence that Allied planes were waging on German cities
German Collapse & Surrender

Photo of the Nagasaki atomic blast
The Atomic Bomb


The Nuremberg War Trials


Japan Surrenders
The Surrender of Japan

Six of the Japanese war criminals on trial in Tokyo
The Tokyo War Trials


Cold War Espionage

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