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Illustration of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19). (Photo by Alamy)

Coronavirus: a historical perspective

A woman is carried away on a stretcher following a German bombing raid on London, c1940. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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The dangers of the Blitz spirit

German women carrying children believed to be part of the Lebensborn programme

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The woman who gave birth for Hitler

Al Pacino and Logan Lerman in Amazon Prime's 'Hunters'.

A historian’s review of Amazon’s “Holocaust revenge saga” Hunters

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12 things you need to know about Anne Frank and her diary

Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler watch a Nazi parade staged for the Italian dictators's visit to Germany. (Photo by Getty Images)

How do dictators seize power? The malevolent careers of eight 20th-century leaders explained

Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler watch a Nazi parade staged for the Italian dictators's visit to Germany. (Photo by Getty Images)

Dictators explained

A medieval monk praying in front of a table of apothacary's herbs

Beating the Black Death: did medieval medicine help people to survive?

Go west: Refugees crowd the quayside in the port of Kolberg. Between them and their destination in the west lay freezing waters, mines and enemy submarines. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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Operation Hannibal 1945: the Germany evacuation that dwarfed the ‘miracle of Dunkirk’

The rise of Hitler. (Photo by Getty Images)

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The rise of Hitler

The ruins of Dresden after the bombing by Allied forces in early 1945. (Photo by Getty Images)

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The bombing of Dresden

The Battle of Bunker Hill

From Scots Highlanders to German soldiers: the Europeans who fought on both sides of the War of American Independence

Confronting evils.

Confronting evils

Actress Emmy Goring and her husband Hermann

Nazi wives: the women beside Hess, Goebbels, Göring and Himmler

Photo of Adolf Hitler

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Rise of a dictator: how did Hitler gain power and become the führer of Germany?