
Spring 1945. The war in Europe was breathing its final ragged breaths. The skies over Germany were gray, thick with the smell of smoke and…

By the winter of 1944, the war in Europe was collapsing inward on itself. The German front lines were retreating from France, Belgium, and the…

In the early months of 1945, as the war in Europe reached its final chaotic stages, German female prisoners of war found themselves in an…

April 1945, Northern Germany. The morning air hung thick with ash and dampness as Helga Schmidt stood in the courtyard of what had been a…

1945. The war in Europe was collapsing in slow, uneven waves. Cities were surrendering, armies were retreating without orders, and millions of civilians, and auxiliary…

The boots on the wooden porch stopped midstep. A 15-year-old girl, gaunt as a famine struck ghost, stepped off the army truck and into the…

September 194, a Japanese Army nurse stands in a Texas prison camp dining hall staring at six strips of bacon on her breakfast plate. She…

May 1945, the European War had ended. But for 147 captured German army nurses, the future remained shrouded in uncertainty. These women, aged 19 to…

1944, late autumn, Western Europe. By the time the complaint reached the American Guard station, the war had already turned. Normandy was behind them. Paris…

August 20th, 1945. Opera Harbor, Guam. The transport ship’s engines rumbled to life as nearly 300 Japanese women stepped onto the gangway, their khaki uniforms…





