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The Warsaw Ghetto, Poland, where hundreds of thousands of Jews were forced to live before they were sent to concentration camps as part of Adolf Hitler’s ‘final solution’. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

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The Jews who fought back: the story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

A US soldier teaching two junior 'rookie' recruits how to clean a gun during the First World War

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7 things you (probably) didn’t know about America’s entry and involvement in the First World War

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

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 Library The not-so Great Escape

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Queen Victoria with her children and grandchildren

The marriages of Queen Victoria’s grandchildren

A portrait of Karl Marx, the German economist, sociologist and philosopher who is known for his work the 'Communist Manifesto'. (Getty Images)

Your guide to Karl Marx: who was he, what was the Communist Manifesto and why is he important?

A portrait of physicist Albert Einstein, c1946. (Photo by Fred Stein Archive/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Albert Einstein: facts about his life, death, education and work

An unidentified sitter for photographer Gerty Simon. (© The Bernard Simon Estate, Wiener Library Collections)

The lost sitters of photographer Gerty Simon – can you help?

Bill Edwardes, who at the age of 16 joined the army to fight during WW2.

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The boys who lied about their age to fight in WW2

Charles I's great weakness was that he made a strict distinction between his role as king, in which he could not compromise, and his personal role, which was entirely pleasant and courteous, says Sean Lang. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)

8 of the nicest kings in history

An example of the Zimmermann Telegram

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

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

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“Many of the Holocaust’s perpetrators got away with it”: why Nazi crimes went unpunished

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)

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Paddy Ashdown. (Photo by Alamy)

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The Germans who fought Hitler