by Massachusetts History Alliance | Jun 27, 2023 | History News
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by Massachusetts History Alliance | Jun 22, 2023 | History News
Patricia PosnerThe Pharmacist of Auschwitz is the little-known story of Victor Capesius, a Bayer pharmaceutical salesman from Romania who, at the age of 35, joined the Nazi SS in 1943 and quickly became the chief pharmacist at the largest death camp, Auschwitz. Based...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Jun 15, 2023 | History News
Friederike BaerBetween 1776 and 1783, Britain hired an estimated 30,000 German soldiers to fight in its war against the Americans. Collectively known as Hessians, they actually came from six German territories within the Holy Roman Empire. Over the course of the war,...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Jun 8, 2023 | History News
Charles GlassA brilliant and poignant history of the friendship between two great war poets, Siegfried Sassoon, and Wilfred Owen, alongside a narrative investigation of the origins of PTSD and the literary response to World War I. From the moment war broke out across...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Jun 1, 2023 | History News
Ryan WaltersHe’s the butt of political jokes, frequently subjected to ridicule, and almost never absent a “Worst Presidents” list where he most often ends up at the bottom. Historians have labeled him the “Worst President Ever,” “Dead Last,” “Unfit,” and...
