
They were told Americans would torture them, starve them, work them to death. But when 500 German women auxiliaries stood barefoot on cold concrete floors…

They were told the Americans would use them for experiments. Nazi propaganda had painted vivid pictures. Labs filled with screaming subjects, needles dripping with poison,…
The apartment where she had grown up was a pile of rubble. They lived in a single room of a partially destroyed building, sharing it…

They told her that her brother had been executed by firing squad. The letter arrived in November 1945. Official Vermached stamps across the top. The…
the camps, the murders, what they did to the Jews, to anyone they considered inferior. How do we come back from that? Greta had no…

They were told the Americans would shoot them on site. Three German women dressed in tattered gray uniforms of the Vermached Auxiliaries dragged their friend…
Each idea planted seeds of doubt in soil that had been prepared by months of watching Americans act nothing like the monsters they were supposed…

They had been told the Americans would show no mercy, that pregnant women would be especially vulnerable, singled out for cruelty, the propaganda ministers had…
She had learned that propaganda was a tool used by all sides, that truth was often the first casualty of war, and that humanity could…

They were told that Americans would torture prisoners, that capture meant death or worse. But when 127 Japanese women stepped off the transport ship at…


