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A young Marlene Dietrich, whose recording of “Lili Marleen” was widely heard by soldiers on both sides of World War II.

photographs, published in magazines such as Life , illustrated the horrors of war in both color and black and white. The war hit home at every level, not only in the United States but around the world. The media brought to the world’s attention the horrors of the Holocaust, the systematic murder of millions of Jews and others by the Nazis. The first reports came in August 1944, when the Soviet Red Army began liberating Nazi death camps in Eastern Europe, including Auschwitz and Treblinka. Reporters in Asia later brought the world tales about the mistreatment of Japanese prisoners of war and female civilians in China, Korea, and the Philippines.

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CULTURE AND CUSTOMS IN A CONNECTED WORLD