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A despatch rider during WW1, as featured in new Sam Mendes film '1917'

First World War

The real trench runners of WW1

Peronne, March 1917

Operation Alberich: the story of Germany’s retreat in 1917.

Setting a trap: East German soldiers construct the Berlin Wall, 13 August 1961. The barrier was an attempt to stop the flood of Germans fleeing from east to west – yet, as scores of audacious escape bids attest, it didn't entirely succeed. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Escape from East Berlin: an audacious bid to tunnel under the Berlin Wall.

Stretcher bearers at Passchendaele

The forgotten triumphs of Passchendaele.

Marshal Foch and his accompaniment leaving Compiègne in order to inform the French government in Paris about the Armistice agreement with Germany. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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Where was the Armistice signed?

East Germans crowd around and on the Berlin Wall the day after the gates opened for free movement in 1989

What happened after the fall of the Berlin Wall?.

A ‘Trabi’ – the classic East German Trabant 601 car

The cost of unity: Ian Kershaw on the fall of the Berlin Wall.

A man attacks the Berlin Wall with a pickaxe on the night of November 9th, 1989 as news spread rapidly that the East German Government would now start granting exit visas to anyone who wanted to go to the West. The announcement was misinterpreted as meaning the border was now open and East German border guards were unable to stop the rush of people to the Wall. Within hours people were smashing sections of the Wall with their own hand tools and these first cracks in the Wall led to the complete opening of the border within days. (Photo by robert wallis/Corbis via Getty Images)

In pictures: remembering the Berlin Wall 30 years on

Secret listeners.

The wrecked remains of an Allied glider that participated in Market Garden

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Why Operation Market Garden, the Allies' battle for Arnhem, was a disaster in the planning

A portrait of Queen Victoria and her family

Q&AWho were Prince Albert's family, the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas?.

Chancellor Adolf Hitler with President Paul von Hindenburg, Berlin, 1 May 1933

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Hitler's millionaire backers: how Germany's elite facilitated the rise of the Nazis

Sir Max Hastings: “While the Dambuster raid’s strategic impact was almost nil, its propaganda value was immense”.

Poles watch the first of the German invasion planes over Warsaw, 1939. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Poland, 1939: World War Two begins.

Adolf Hitler watches German troops march in central Poland

Roger Moorhouse: How Hitler’s diplomatic miscalculation led to WW2.

Brendan Simms photographed by Ian Farrell

Hitler’s war with Anglo-America.

Margaretha Geertruida Zelle called Mata Hari (Photo by Apic/Getty Images)

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Mata Hari: exotic dancer, femme fatale, traitor and spy

9 notable ambassadors in history.

Members of the Home Guard train racing pigeons as messengers in Blackburn, July 1940. Soon, carrier birds like this would be supplying vital intelligence on German arms factories and troop movements in occupied Europe. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The pigeons’ war on Hitler.

Mary Fulbrook and Richard J Evans. (Photo by Fran Monks)

"Many of the Holocaust's perpetrators got away with it": why Nazi crimes went unpunished.

The killing zone: This photograph by Robert F Sargent, known as ‘Taxis to Hell – and Back – into the Jaws of Death’, shows American troops wading towards Omaha Beach on the morning of 6 June 1944. (Photo via Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

D-Day: 24 hours that changed the world.

Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring on the balcony of the Reichs Chancellery, Berlin. One British journalist recalled how, in 1933, Göring began an attack against the foreign press unlike any he had previously witnessed. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Reporting on Hitler: how foreign correspondents in Nazi Germany battled to expose the truth.

Adolf Hitler with his mistress, Eva Braun, in the early to mid-1940s. The pair married on 29 April 1945, the day before they committed suicide together. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Eva Braun: life with Adolf Hitler

An example of the Zimmermann Telegram

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The Zimmermann telegram: the telegram that brought America into the First World War

Petra Kelly. “Through sheer force of will, Petra Kelly put green politics on the map. Her success in Germany in the 1980s inspired green parties across the world to shake things up,” says Caroline Lucas. (Photo by Schulze-Vorberg/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

My history hero: Caroline Lucas chooses Petra Kelly (1947–92).

The Nuremberg trials have not been universally praised. To some, the trials were a blown-up case of victors' justice. (Image by Bettmann/Getty Images)

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A brief guide to the Nuremberg Trials, where some Nazis faced justice after WW2

Paddy Ashdown. (Photo by Alamy)

The Germans who fought Hitler.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, 1934. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

Nietzsche’s dangerous ideas.

An American recruitment poster. “US forces showed an impressive ability to learn at speed,” says Nick Lloyd. (© Getty)

The great misconceptions of the First World War.

The Ghent Altarpiece. (Image by Getty Images)

Who were the real monuments men of the Second World War?.