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Adolf Hitler photographed with Nazi war generals

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c1962: Military personnel in a car pass through the US Army's Checkpoint Charlie on the Berlin Wall. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

A brief history of Checkpoint Charlie

Berlin Wall

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Young Nazi supporters wave flags in the Saar territory in Germany, 1934. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Swastika on a lotus background

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Welcome home: the cruiser 'Exeter' arrives back at Plymouth, c15 February 1940, after taking part in the battle of the River Plate. The action resulted in the scuttling of the German pocket battleship 'Admiral Graf Spee', which had sent several British merchant ships to the bottom of the Atlantic. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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The Battle of the Atlantic: the “desperate” WW2 campaign featured in Tom Hanks film Greyhound

Members of 617 squadron, known as the Dambusters

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How successful was the Dambusters raid?

Image depicting Roman general Germanicus oversing the burial of the bones of Romans killed in the battle of Teutoburg Forest

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The German chief of staff General Alfred Jodl signs an unconditional surrender to the Allies in Reims, France, 7 May 1945 (Photo by Getty Images)

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Britain at War

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B-17 bombers make their way to England to aid the British in WW2, April 1942. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Soldiers from the Women's Royal Army Corps

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A brief guide to VE Day

Expelled Germans leaving Poland's western territories

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“The war without an end”: what happened in Europe after VE Day?

Flying the flag: A sailor signals a merchant ship in the Thames Estuary, 1939. Allied maritime capacity was paramount in the final victory. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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VE Day at 75 WW2: Why did the Allies win the Second World War?

A silhouette of troops of the 1st Australian Division during the First World War.

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