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German Heinkel HE-111 bombers fly over Britain during a mission in September 1940

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8 reasons why the Luftwaffe didn’t stand a chance of beating the RAF in the Battle of Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Adolf Hitler photographed with Nazi war generals

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What was Operation Sealion, Hitler’s planned invasion of Britain? And why was it cancelled?

c1962: Military personnel in a car pass through the US Army's Checkpoint Charlie on the Berlin Wall. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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A brief history of Checkpoint Charlie

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Nazi Germany: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Battle of the Atlantic: the "desperate" WW2 campaign featured in Tom Hanks film Greyhound. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Members of 617 squadron, known as the Dambusters

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How successful was the Dambusters raid?

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Britain at War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Expelled Germans leaving Poland's western territories

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"The war without an end": what happened in Europe after VE Day?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Jews who fought back: the story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Prisoners at Bergen-Belsen

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A brief history of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where Anne Frank died

Children in Auschwitz

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The Windermere Children: the remarkable stories of 300 child survivors of the Holocaust

An oil portrait of Charlemagne (c747–814), King of the Franks, by 15th/16th-century artist Albrecht Durer. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)

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The legacy of Charlemagne: how the king of the Franks continues to cast a shadow over Europe

Steve McQueen stars in the 1963 film that turned the 'Great Escape' into a symbol of Allied pluck and ingenuity. (Image by Alamy)

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The not-so Great Escape. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jesus appears before Pontius Pilate in a crowd scene from Oberammergau's 2010 Passion Play. The Bavarian town stages the mammoth production once every ten years, with a cast made up entirely of local residents. (Photo by Brigitte Maria Mayer Passionsspiele Oberammergau 2020)

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Illustration of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19). (Photo by Alamy)

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Illustration of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19). (Photo by Alamy)

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A woman is carried away on a stretcher following a German bombing raid on London, c1940. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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German women carrying children believed to be part of the Lebensborn programme

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The woman who gave birth for Hitler

Al Pacino and Logan Lerman in Amazon Prime's 'Hunters'.

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A historian’s review of Amazon’s “Holocaust revenge saga” Hunters

Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler watch a Nazi parade staged for the Italian dictators's visit to Germany. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Go west: Refugees crowd the quayside in the port of Kolberg. Between them and their destination in the west lay freezing waters, mines and enemy submarines. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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Operation Hannibal 1945: the Germany evacuation that dwarfed the 'miracle of Dunkirk'. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The rise of Hitler. (Photo by Getty Images)

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The ruins of Dresden after the bombing by Allied forces in early 1945. (Photo by Getty Images)

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The bombing of Dresden. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Battle of Bunker Hill

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From Scots Highlanders to German soldiers: the Europeans who fought on both sides of the War of American Independence. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Confronting evils.

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Actress Emmy Goring and her husband Hermann

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Nazi wives: the women beside Hess, Goebbels, Göring and Himmler

Photo of Adolf Hitler

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Rise of a dictator: how did Hitler gain power and become the führer of Germany?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Youths salute Adolf Hitler

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Hitler Youth: how the Third Reich used children’s organisations to wage war

Glamorous portrait of movie actress Hedy Lamarr wearing white fox fur short jacket

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History heroMartha Lane Fox chooses Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000)

German prisoners of war

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What would you have done? 6 terrible choices people had to make during the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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