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Friends of the National World War II Memorial presents a Monthly Conference Series to learn more about the spirit of unity and shared purpose that defined the character of our country during World War II. This series of monthly half-day virtual conferences features discussions with WWII veterans, war orphans, published authors, and other experts.
Register today, for free, to join this unique digital experience.
September - April
Third Saturday Monthly
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET
After Germany's surrender in May 1945, agents of the US Army's Counter Intelligence Corps were sent to find senior Nazis in hiding before they could escape or regroup. Charles Lachman recounts the work of this unit of college students, linguists, draftees, and refugees, and their pursuit of Gestapo chief Ernst Kaltenbrunner, propagandist Julius Streicher, and slave labor administrator Robert Ley, all of whom were captured and tried at Nuremberg. Lachman is the author of five narrative nonfiction books, including the national bestseller Codename Nemo, and is executive producer of Inside Edition.
During World War II, a small group of FBI agents assumed false identities in Europe to hunt down American citizens who had collaborated with Nazi and Fascist regimes, and later helped investigate war criminals ahead of the Nuremberg trials. Stephen Harding's G.I. G-Men draws on newly declassified documents, interviews with agents' families, and unpublished accounts of accused traitors to describe the FBI's "European Operation," from J. Edgar Hoover's push to extend the Bureau overseas and its covert cooperation with Britain's MI5 to the exposure of espionage networks in France and Italy. A former defense journalist who covered conflicts in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, the Middle East, and Iraq, Harding is the author of eleven books, including the bestseller The Last Battle, and roughly 300 articles on military, aviation, and maritime history.
As casualties mounted among doctors, medics, and corpsmen in the Pacific, the US Navy sent combat nurses to contested airfields at Iwo Jima and Okinawa, where they triaged wounded men and evacuated them aboard unpressurized aircraft under enemy fire. Historian Leah Garrett, Chair and Professor at Hunter College, City University of New York, follows a team of these women from their small-town origins through the battles, showing how their work helped secure both islands. She is also the author of X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War Two and the award-winning Young Lions.
The Friends of the National World War II Memorial’s education programs are generously supported by the Jack C. Taylor / Enterprise Rent-A-Car WWII Memorial Education Endowment.
