Germany

British Army tanks are unloaded on to Gold Beach on D-Day

Second World War

D-Day quiz Test your knowledge of the Normandy Landings

Pod Philip Oltermann WL

Stasi poets: creative writing & the Cold War

Businessman Oskar Schindler speaks about saving lives during the Holocaust of Germany's Third Reich at an interview. (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

Biography Oskar Schindler: your guide to his life and legacy

Pod Barney White-Spunner WL

General History

Berlin’s tumultuous history

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)

Second World War

Should we be glad the 1944 July Plot to kill Hitler failed?

Pod Robert Harris WL

Second World War

Munich: the real history behind the new film

King George II of Great Britain

George II: 8 facts about the British king and German elector

Neville Chamberlain shows off the Anglo-German Declaration at Heston Aerodrome

Second World War

Q&A Peace for our time: what was written on Neville Chamberlain’s piece of paper?

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Part nineteen in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1900–1949. (Image by Getty Images)

Turning points 1916: The long march to modernity . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Stuka dive bombers fly in formation over France in May 1940

Second World War

The making and breaking of the Luftwaffe

Wehrmacht soldiers on parade, 1937

Second World War

Q&A How was Germany able to  afford the astronomical cost  of rearmament in the 1930s?

Woman waving a union jack flag emblazoned with a swastika

In pictures: Interwar fascism

A scene from the German film 'Ways to Strength and Beauty', 1925. (Ullstein Bild via Getty Images)

Second World War

Germany’s naked truth: the 19th-century nudism movements co-opted by the Nazis

German doctor Otto Warburg at work in his laboratory

Second World War

Otto Warburg: the Jewish doctor and the Nazi war on cancer

Politicians in suits discuss the Paris Peace Treaty inside the Palace of Versailles

The Paris Peace Conference: everything you wanted to know