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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

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&A Who 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. (Image by Fran Monks for BBC History Magazine)

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

The destroyer USS Shaw explodes in a massive fireball at Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941. The attack led almost immediately to Germany declaring war on America, and so brought Stalin an unexpected ally of colossal potential power, says Laurence Rees. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

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Why December 1941 was the most important month of the Second World War

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

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Poland, 1939: World War Two begins

Adolf Hitler watches German troops march in central Poland

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

Roger Moorhouse. (By hyattstudios.co.uk)

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“Much of what we know about the September campaign of 1939 is wrong”: 5 minutes with Roger Moorhouse

Brendan Simms photographed by Ian Farrell

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Hitler’s war with Anglo-America

A newspaper seller at the start of WW2

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Countdown to WW2: the 72 hours that took the world to war

Jews stand with hands up before German soldiers

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The brutal blitzkrieg: the 1939 invasion of Poland

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

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

Greek pottery featuring swastikas

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Q&A How did a Sanskrit symbol become the Nazi swastika?