27 Oct

Favorite (1943) A country "somewhere in Europe" has just been invaded by Hitler, and the Resistance makes itself known. Directed by Jean Renoir, son of the French impressionist....

26 Oct

(1945) The French bride of a World War II RAF pilot has been murdered for her work with the Resistance. When the war if over, he wants revenge....

23 Oct

According to a 1945 OSS report I discovered in the National Archives, the Gestapo was said to have its meeting place in Stockholm in a restaurant called Regnbågen. The word Regnbågen translates to mean Rainbow. Today the building houses the "Spy Bar."...

21 Oct

When I was going through sixty-year-old files and boxes from WWII OSS Stockholm at the National Archives this past week, I found several references to "Penetration" of the USAAF Internees by German agents. ...

18 Oct

Favorite (1965) Based on the true story of the Norwegians' top secret project to prevent the Nazis from producing the heavy water they wanted for the development of an atomic bomb....

14 Oct

On Monday, I flew to College Park, MD (just outside Washington, DC) to spend four days at the National Archives facility there. This is where the declassified records of the Office of Strategic Services are stored. ...

04 Oct

(2007) The biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the president who prepared us for and led us through World War II....

03 Oct

(1999) A modern American Jewish teenager, uninterested in her family's experiences in the Holocaust, is suddenly transported back to wartime Poland and experiences it all herself. ...

02 Oct

(1955 and 1999) An American writer who has been honorably discharged from the army settles in World War II London to work on his book. ...

30 Sep

Djurgården, another section of Stockholm east of Staden, or Old Town, consists of an island as well as an area to the north of it, known as Norra Djurgården (Northern Djurgården) separated by the bay of Djurgårdsbrunnsviken....

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