All of the Nazi leaders were convicted of war crimes, and all were executed by hanging.
They saw children in concentration camps, women loading ammunition rounds and soldiers both fighting and greeting one another — famous images that showed the war’s severity, stirring emotions in the students.
He is among 50 educators from across the country who have been selected to travel to Washington, D.C. to participate in the Friends of the National World War II Memorial Teachers Network and Conference in July. He’ll be the first teacher from Maine to participate in the conference — now in its fourth year — according to Holly Rotondi, executive director of Friends of the National World War II Memorial, which hosts the program.
Gower will memorialize his grandfather, Charles O’Rielly, who was in the U.S. Army at Okinawa, Japan, during part of the occupation.