Adolf Hitler
1942 - Germany / occupied Europe
Germany, 1942.
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1942 - Germany / occupied Europe
Germany, 1942.
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1942 - New Yorker Hotel, New York
1942 - Germany / occupied Europe
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1942 - New Yorker Hotel, New York
Watched by maids, creditors, and memory alike, the inventor who lit the world reflects on the difference between vision and vindication.
1930 - Chicago
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
In a quiet house in Chicago, a journalist who documented lynching sets down the evidence that America tried to silence.
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