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Swastika on a lotus background

Second World War

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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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Members of 617 squadron, known as the Dambusters

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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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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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Expelled Germans leaving Poland's western territories

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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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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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Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert, pictured in 1854. (Photo by Roger Fenton/Roger Fenton/Getty Images)

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert: what was their relationship like?

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 Wall Street speculator tries to sell his car to passersby

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Prisoners at Bergen-Belsen

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A brief history of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where Anne Frank died

Children in Auschwitz

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The Windermere Children: the remarkable stories of 300 child survivors of the Holocaust