The Globalist

A collection of charts, graphs and maps exploring the Second World War.

Our best articles on the significance, the human toll and the consequences of the Second World War.

What are the keys to wartime presidential leadership?

There must be a new urgency to ensuring that people everywhere understand the horrors of the past and the dangers of today’s authoritarian trends.

Two movies about Britain in 1940 – Dunkirk and the Darkest Hour – have collected plenty of Oscar nominations. Yet, both movies are full of historical nonsense.

The most distinctive character of the Second World War is that it was Nazi Germany’s war of extermination in Russia.

Not long ago, Germans shunned their country’s past. Now, they are far more open-eyed.

Why it matters to stand up for justice and demand atonement.

The ominous date also marks the beginning of violence and occupation in Algeria, Greece and Eastern Europe.

70 years later, a survivor of the atrocities of WWII recalls her experience.