{"id":74618,"date":"2023-11-05T15:41:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T15:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2023\/11\/05\/new-addition-to-national-wwii-museum-addresses-the-conflicts-legacy\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T14:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:03:43","slug":"new-addition-to-national-wwii-museum-addresses-the-conflicts-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/veterans\/2023\/11\/05\/new-addition-to-national-wwii-museum-addresses-the-conflicts-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"New addition to National WWII Museum addresses the conflict\u2019s legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new, permanent addition to the sprawling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/military-honor\/salute-veterans\/2021\/11\/28\/wwii-museum-show-to-feature-stories-of-bravery-sacrifice\/\" target=\"_blank\">National WWII Museum<\/a> in New Orleans is a three-story complex with displays as daunting as a simulated Nazi concentration camp bunk room, and as inspiring as a violin pieced together from scrap wood by an American prisoner of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Liberation Pavilion opened Friday with ceremonies attended by surviving veterans of the war, Holocaust survivors, historians and actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/off-duty\/military-culture\/2023\/10\/05\/spielberg-hanks-wwii-series-masters-of-the-air-gets-premiere-date\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Hanks<\/a>, a longtime supporter of the museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEverybody should see this,\u201d proclaimed John Cristando, one of about 40 surviving WWII veterans attending opening ceremonies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new pavilion is ambitious in scope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow aligncenter\" data-effect=\"slide\"><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_container swiper\"><ul class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_swiper-wrapper swiper-wrapper\"><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"8640\" height=\"5760\" alt=\"Replicas of real dog tags worn by U.S. soldiers in World War II cover the entry wall to the new pavilion that will be opening at the National World War II Museum, in New Orleans, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023.\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-20144\" data-id=\"20144\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704599912.jpg.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704599912.jpg.jpg 8640w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704599912.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704599912.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704599912.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704599912.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704599912.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 8640px) 100vw, 8640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">Replicas of real dog tags worn by U.S. soldiers in World War II cover the entry wall to the new pavilion that will be opening at the National World War II Museum, in New Orleans, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. The latest major addition to the museum is called the Liberation Pavilion. (Gerald Herbert\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" alt=\"Kim Guise, curator for the National World War II Museum, shows a violin, hand made by Wilfred Lyon while a prisoner of the Germans, which will be on display at the new pavilion of the museum, in New Orleans, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023.\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-20159\" data-id=\"20159\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704395370.jpg.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704395370.jpg.jpg 6000w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704395370.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704395370.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704395370.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704395370.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704395370.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 6000px) 100vw, 6000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">Kim Guise, curator for the National World War II Museum, shows a violin, hand made by Wilfred Lyon while a prisoner of the Germans, which will be on display at the new pavilion of the museum, in New Orleans, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. The latest major addition to the museum is called the Liberation Pavilion. (Gerald Herbert\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" alt=\"A prosthetic device for a wounded U.S. soldier, part of the new pavilion of the National World War II Museum, is shown inside an archival wing of the museum before they are put on display, in New Orleans, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023.\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-20167\" data-id=\"20167\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704390342.jpg.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704390342.jpg.jpg 6000w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704390342.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704390342.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704390342.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704390342.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704390342.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 6000px) 100vw, 6000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">A prosthetic device for a wounded U.S. soldier, part of the new pavilion of the National World War II Museum, is shown inside an archival wing of the museum before they are put on display, in New Orleans, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. The latest major addition to the museum is called the Liberation Pavilion. (Gerald Herbert\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" alt=\"Kim Guise, curator for the National World War II Museum, shows a harmonica used by Wilfred Lyon while a prisoner of the Germans, which will be on display at the new pavilion of the museum, in New Orleans, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023.\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-20177\" data-id=\"20177\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704411224.jpg.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704411224.jpg.jpg 6000w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704411224.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704411224.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704411224.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704411224.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704411224.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 6000px) 100vw, 6000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">Kim Guise, curator for the National World War II Museum, shows a harmonica used by Wilfred Lyon while a prisoner of the Germans, which will be on display at the new pavilion of the museum, in New Orleans, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. The latest major addition to the museum is called the Liberation Pavilion. (Gerald Herbert\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"8640\" height=\"5760\" alt=\"A reproduction of the headstone of Army Corporal Sam Cordova, who was serving with the 60th Coastal Artillery Regiment in the Philippines when he was killed in action on Dec. 29, 1941, is part of the new pavilion of the National World War II Museum, in New Orleans, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023.\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-20190\" data-id=\"20190\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704683835.jpg.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704683835.jpg.jpg 8640w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704683835.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704683835.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704683835.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704683835.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704683835.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 8640px) 100vw, 8640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">A reproduction of the headstone of Army Corporal Sam Cordova, who was serving with the 60th Coastal Artillery Regiment in the Philippines when he was killed in action on Dec. 29, 1941, is part of the new pavilion of the National World War II Museum, in New Orleans, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. (Gerald Herbert\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" alt=\"Images from the Buchenwald concentration camp are part of the new pavilion opening at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023.\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-20204\" data-id=\"20204\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704411596.jpg.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704411596.jpg.jpg 6000w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704411596.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704411596.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704411596.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704411596.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704411596.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 6000px) 100vw, 6000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">Images from the Buchenwald concentration camp are part of the new pavilion opening at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. The latest major addition to the museum is called the Liberation Pavilion. (Gerald Herbert\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"8640\" height=\"5760\" alt=\"A recreation of bunks in a concentration camp is part of the new pavilion of the National World War II Museum, in New Orleans, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023.\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-20220\" data-id=\"20220\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704677626.jpg.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704677626.jpg.jpg 8640w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704677626.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704677626.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704677626.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704677626.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704677626.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 8640px) 100vw, 8640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">A recreation of bunks in a concentration camp is part of the new pavilion of the National World War II Museum, in New Orleans, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. The latest major addition to the museum is called the Liberation Pavilion. (Gerald Herbert\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"8640\" height=\"5760\" alt=\"A portrait of Anne Frank is part of a replica of the home in Amsterdam where she hid, as part of the new pavilion opening at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023.\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-20235\" data-id=\"20235\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704906074.jpg.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704906074.jpg.jpg 8640w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704906074.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704906074.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704906074.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704906074.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704906074.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 8640px) 100vw, 8640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">A portrait of Anne Frank is part of a replica of the home in Amsterdam where she hid, as part of the new pavilion opening at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. The latest major addition to the museum is called the Liberation Pavilion. (Gerald Herbert\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"8640\" height=\"5760\" alt=\"Imagery of post-war Japan are part of the new pavilion of the National World War II Museum, in New Orleans, photographed Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023.\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-20245\" data-id=\"20245\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704768524.jpg.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704768524.jpg.jpg 8640w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704768524.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704768524.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704768524.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704768524.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704768524.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 8640px) 100vw, 8640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">Imagery of post-war Japan are part of the new pavilion of the National World War II Museum, in New Orleans, photographed Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. The latest major addition to the museum is called the Liberation Pavilion. (Gerald Herbert\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"8640\" height=\"5760\" alt=\"A bookcase revealing a secret hiding place is part of a replica of the home in Amsterdam where Anne Frank hid, in the new pavilion opening at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023.\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-20254\" data-id=\"20254\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704959713.jpg.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704959713.jpg.jpg 8640w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704959713.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704959713.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704959713.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704959713.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23306704959713.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 8640px) 100vw, 8640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">A bookcase revealing a secret hiding place is part of a replica of the home in Amsterdam where Anne Frank hid, in the new pavilion opening at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. The latest major addition to the museum is called the Liberation Pavilion.(Gerald Herbert\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2000\" alt=\"A World War II veteran looks an exhibit at the National WWII Museum's new Liberation Pavilion in New Orleans on Friday, Nov. 3, 2023.\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-20263\" data-id=\"20263\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23307632774007.jpg.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23307632774007.jpg.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23307632774007.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23307632774007.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23307632774007.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23307632774007.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23307632774007.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">A World War II veteran looks an exhibit at the National WWII Museum&#8217;s new Liberation Pavilion in New Orleans on Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. (Kevin McGill\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-prev swiper-button-prev swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"><\/a><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-next swiper-button-next swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Pause Slideshow\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-pause\" role=\"button\"><\/a><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_pagination swiper-pagination swiper-pagination-white\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Its exhibits, which fill 33,000 square feet (3065.80 square meters), commemorate the end of the war\u2019s death and destruction, emphasize its human costs and capture the horror of those who discovered the aftermath of Nazi atrocities. Films, photos and recorded oral histories recount the joys and challenges awaiting those who returned from battle, the international effort to seek justice for those killed and tortured, and a worldwide effort to recover and rebuild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Underlying it all is the idea that almost 80 years later, the war\u2019s social and geopolitical legacies endure \u2014 from the acceleration of civil rights and women\u2019s equality movements in the U.S. to the formation of international alliances to protect democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe live in a world created by World War II,\u201d Rob Citino, the museum\u2019s Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian. said when asked what he wants the pavilion\u2019s visitors to remember.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s a grim tour at first. Visitors entering the complex pass a shimmering wall of military dog tags, each imprinted with the name of an American killed in action, a tribute to the more than 414,000 American war dead. The first centerpiece exhibit is a large crate used to ferry the coffin of an Army private home to his family in Ohio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steps away is a recreation of the secret rooms where Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam. Then, a dimly lit room of wooden bunks and life-size projected images of the emaciated survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. Nearby is a simulated salt mine, its craggy walls lined with images of centuries-old paintings and crates of statuary \u2014 representing works of art plundered by the Germans and recovered after the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amid the bleakness of the pavilion\u2019s first floor are smaller and more hope-inspiring items, including a violin constructed by an American prisoner of war. Air Force 1st Lt. Clair Cline, a woodworker, used wood scavenged with the help of fellow prisoners to assemble the violin as a way of fighting the tedium of internment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe used bed slats and table legs. He scraped glue from the bottom of bits of furniture around the camp,\u201d said Kimberly Guise, a senior curator at the museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pavilion\u2019s second floor focuses in part on what those who served faced upon returning home \u2014 \u201cthe responsibilities at home and abroad to defend freedom, advance human rights, protect democracy,\u201d said Michael Bell, a retired Army colonel and the executive director of the museum\u2019s Institute for the Study of War and Democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Black veterans came back to a homeland still marred by segregation and even violence against people of color. Women had filled non-traditional roles at home and abroad. Pavilion exhibits make the case that their experiences energized efforts to achieve equality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCivil rights is the fifties and women\u2019s equality is more more like the sixties,\u201d Citino said. \u201cBut we think both of those seminal changes in American society can be traced back in a significant way to World War II.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other second-level exhibits include looks at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, the post-war emergence of the United States as a world superpower and the formation of international alliances meant to sustain peace and guard against the emergence of other worldwide threats to freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe talk about NATO or the United Nations, but I don\u2019t know that most people understand that these are creations, American-led creations, from the war,\u201d said Bell. \u201cWhat our goal is, at least I\u2019d say my goal, is to give the visitor a frame of reference or a lens in which way they can look at things going on in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The third floor includes a multi-format theater with moving screens and a rotating audience platform featuring a production of images and oral histories that, in Bell\u2019s words, \u201creally lays out a theme about freedom under pressure and the triumph of of the American-led freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a recurring theme in speeches heralding the pavilion\u2019s opening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are lucky. 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