
August 22nd, 1945. Camp McCoy, Wisconsin. in the morning. Steam rose from the Messaul kitchen in thick white clouds that hung in the pre-dawn air…

The American doctor’s hands were inside her body and Dr. Ko Tanaka realized with horror that she was still conscious. Blood pulsed against his fingers…

August 18th, 1945. Morning mist hung over an American prison camp in Manila. Inside a canvas tent, a young Japanese nurse sat quietly, a fresh…

April 1945, a dusty prison camp in Louisiana. 63 German women stepped off military trucks. Their hands were shaking. Their hearts were pounding. They had…

Alershot, England, November 1945. The medical tent smelled of antiseptic and canvas. Rain drumed against fabric stretched over wooden frames. Sister Margaret Hoffman stood at…

They were told that American soldiers would burn them alive, torture them, do things too horrible to speak of. For months, the propaganda had painted…

On the 11th of February, just outside the shattered outskirts of Cologne, a group of exhausted German women, former auxiliary workers, medics, clerks, and camp…

September 15th, 1944. Camp Waywright, Texas. The train carrying German prisoners slowed as it approached the platform. Metal wheels grinding against rails that had carried…

December 1945. San Diego Naval Hospital. Ward B. Third floor. The winter sun cuts through the window at an angle, painting a square of gold…

March 1946. A ruined street in the American zone of Berlin. Snow is falling in thick, silent flakes. Among the rubble walks a young German…





