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Paddy Ashdown. (Photo by Alamy)

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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)

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The great misconceptions of the First World War

Siegfried Sassoon in uniform. (Photo by George C. Beresford/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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5 First World War poets

The Ghent Altarpiece. (Image by Getty Images)

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

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British troops go over the top of the trenches during the Battle of the Somme, 1916. The Somme was one of the bloodiest clashes of the First World War, causing more than one million casualties over five months. (Photo by Paul Popper/Popperfoto/Getty Images)

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The First World War: Was it worth it?

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August Friedrich Kellner, pictured in 1923. (Photo from Kellner family archive)

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Opposing the Nazis: the secret diary of a German against the Third Reich

Perkin Warbeck, an imposter and pretender to the English throne, being humiliated in the stocks before his execution in 1499. Warbeck was used by Henry VII’s Yorkist enemies in an unsuccessful plot to threaten the new Tudor dynasty. (Getty Images)

Imposters in history: 16 famous con-artists and pretenders

Queen Victoria with her children and grandchildren

The marriages of Queen Victoria’s grandchildren

Britons under Nazi rule podcast

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Britons under Nazi rule

British former field marshal Douglas Haig, inspects poppies before Armistice Day, October 1922. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Remembering the First World War: blood, poppies and poetry

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Photograph by Heinrich Hoffmann of Hitler and architects visiting the construction site of the Berghof around Christmas 1935. From left to right: Leonhard Gall, Gerdy Troost, Hitler, and Wilhelm Brückner, Hitler’s chief adjutant. (United States National Archives, College Park, Maryland)

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Where did Adolf Hitler live? The homes of the führer and how they were used as Nazi propaganda

German women carrying children believed to be part of the Lebensborn programme, which aimed to raise the birth rate of blonde-haired, blue-eyed ‘Aryan’ children through interbreeding. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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The woman who gave birth for Hitler

Deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, German officer Paul Schmidt and Adolf Hitler survey damage at Hitler's eastern front military headquarters, ‘the Wolf’s Lair’, hours after a failed bombing attempt by Lieutenant Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. (Photo by Heinrich Hoffmann/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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Should we be glad the plot to kill Hitler failed?

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