Presented over the course of three weeks, The Heavy Water War depicts one of the most exciting true-life stories from World War II—the Nazi’s efforts to develop an atom bomb and the Allies’ desperate struggle to prevent it from happening. One of the dramatic high points is the daring sabotage mission to blow up the heavy water factory in the Norwegian mountains…
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A talk by Gabriel Gorodetsky, All Souls College, Oxford.
Sue Saffle discusses her book about Finnish children sent abroad during World War II. From Scandinavia House: Between 1939 and 1945, some 80,000 Finnish children were sent to Sweden, Denmark, and elsewhere, ostensibly to protect them from danger while their nation’s soldiers fought superior Soviet and German forces. This was the largest of all of World War II children’s transports,…
A screening of Virginie Linhart’s film “What the Allies Knew,” followed by a panel discussion on what the world outside Nazi occupied territories knew about the Nazi extermination program from 1941 to 1945. From the Italian Academy: While it has been generally accepted that the world learned about the mass murder of the Jews only in the wake of the…