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The 483 pages that link to World War II, each with the reason it gives.

• Claude LanzmannNarrower topic: The occupation and genocide of this period became central subjects of Lanzmann’s work.

• Counseling psychologyRelated: Postwar demand for psychological services helped expand counseling and clinical training.

• Dinu LipattiRelated: The war disrupted Lipatti’s touring and helped shape his years in Switzerland.

• Enoch PowellNarrower topic: Powell served in the British Army throughout the war, reaching the rank of brigadier.

• Fireside chatsRelated: Wartime chats explained U.S. aims and mobilization as the conflict expanded.

• György LigetiRelated: Persecution and wartime loss shaped Ligeti’s life and interrupted his studies.

• Harvard Mark IRelated: Wartime demands for large calculations shaped the machine’s early uses.

• Isaac Bashevis SingerRelated: The catastrophe gives later works their sense of loss, displacement, and vanished worlds.

• Joe LouisRelated: Louis enlisted in the U.S. Army and donated much of his wartime exhibition income to military charities.

• Klaus KinskiRelated: Kinski’s youth and military service unfolded during the war and its aftermath.

• Masaki KobayashiRelated: Kobayashi’s wartime service in Manchuria shaped his lifelong opposition to militarism.

• Matthew RidgwayNarrower topic: Ridgway’s airborne commands in Europe during the war established his reputation before Korea.

• Menachem Mendel SchneersonRelated: The war forced Schneerson’s migration from Europe to the United States in 1941.

• Multiple rocket launcherRelated: Wartime demand drove the widespread deployment of vehicle-mounted multiple rocket launchers.

• Paddy ChayefskyRelated: Chayefsky served in the United States Army during the war before beginning his writing career.

• Pledge of AllegianceRelated: Wartime patriotism accompanied Congress’s 1942 adoption of the pledge into the Flag Code.

• René GoscinnyRelated: The war disrupted Goscinny’s youth and preceded his move from France to Argentina with his family.

• Rhineland-PalatinateNarrower topic: Germany's defeat and occupation created the conditions for the state's formation.

• Roger WatersRelated: Waters’s father was killed in the war, a loss that became central to his work.

• Silent GenerationRelated: The war shaped the childhood and family circumstances of many people born in this cohort.

• TachismeRelated: Its aftermath reshaped European cultural life and the conditions in which Tachisme arose.

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & ClayRelated: The war and the Holocaust drive Joe’s escape from Europe and his family’s fate.

• The Caucasian Chalk CircleRelated: Brecht wrote the play in exile during the war.

• The Great DictatorNarrower topic: The film appeared in 1940, after the war began in Europe but before the United States entered it.

• Thomas MertonRelated: Merton’s wartime-era search for religious commitment preceded his entry into the monastery.

• 1950sNarrower topic: Its aftermath left Europe damaged, empires weakened, and the United States and Soviet Union dominant.

• Aerial warfareBroader topic: Massed air campaigns and carrier aviation made air power central to the war.

• Albert UderzoRelated: The occupation of France shaped Uderzo’s youth and interrupted his early artistic ambitions.

• Anthony BluntNarrower topic: Blunt passed intelligence to the Soviet Union while serving in British wartime intelligence.

• Armoured personnel carrierNarrower topic: Wartime operations accelerated the development and widespread use of armoured troop carriers.

• Ashley MontaguRelated: The war and Nazi racial ideology intensified the political urgency of Montagu’s anti-racist work.

• BirmanRelated: The war nearly eliminated the Birman in Europe, leaving a small breeding population.

• Chlorine trifluorideRelated: Military research during the war included investigation of ClF₃ as a potential incendiary material.

• David NivenRelated: Niven returned to Britain during the war and served in the army, interrupting his Hollywood career.

• David PackardRelated: Defense contracts during the war accelerated HP’s growth and Packard’s management experience.

• Deutsche WelleRelated: The postwar context shaped the case for an independent German voice abroad.

• Disposable productRelated: Wartime manufacturing and material shifts helped expand postwar disposable-product industries.

• Edward Mills PurcellRelated: Purcell’s wartime work on radar shaped the experimental skills and equipment behind his postwar research.

• Ernie PyleNarrower topic: The conflict transformed Pyle’s domestic travel column into frontline correspondence.

• Flag footballRelated: Military recreation during the war is central to common accounts of flag football's early development.

• Frank O’HaraNarrower topic: O’Hara served in the U.S. Navy during the war before studying and beginning his literary career.

• From Here to EternityNarrower topic: The film revisits the American entry into this war through the lives of soldiers in Hawaii.

• Gabriel González VidelaRelated: Chile’s changing relations with the Axis and the Soviet Union framed the politics of González Videla’s early presidency.

• Gore VidalRelated: Vidal served in the U.S. Army during the war, an experience that informed his early writing.

• Hans FischerRelated: Fischer died in Munich in 1945, during the war’s final months.

• Hedy LamarrNarrower topic: The threat of radio-controlled torpedoes being jammed gave the invention its wartime purpose.

• Homi J. BhabhaRelated: The war interrupted Bhabha’s planned return to Cambridge and kept him in India, where he began building research institutions.

• International Air Transport AssociationRelated: The postwar rebuilding of international aviation provided the setting for IATA’s creation.

• Isabel Briggs MyersRelated: Myers began developing the questionnaire during the war, hoping it could help people find suitable work.

• Juliana of the NetherlandsRelated: The German occupation forced Juliana and her children into wartime exile.