In the midst of the Battle of the Bulge, the US 17th Airborne division had their first taste of battle near the village of Flamierge, Belgium, in a little known place called “Dead Man’s Ridge."
The “Great Sedition Trial” uncovered shocking connections at the time with the German reich that we were fighting, and challenged the idea that the nation was of a single mind during the war. It also challenged exactly how far the national commitment to freedom of speech and opinion reached, especially in extraordinary times.