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WW2: The Big Questions, with Laurence Rees – episode 1

WW2: The Big Questions, with Laurence Rees. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Big QuestionsWW2, with Laurence Rees

HistoryExtra AcademyNazi Germany, with Laurence Rees. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Holocaust with Laurence Rees

Tudor England: The Big Questions. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A composite of three WW2 tanks

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Quality or quantity? With WW2 tanks, there was a surprising winner

Banner with 'Ancient Egypt: The Big Questions'

Ancient Egypt: The Big QuestionsFrom the secrets of the pyramids to the mysteries of mummification. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tudor England: the big questions | A HistoryExtra podcast series

WW2's Greatest BattlesPivotal moments that shaped WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Enola Gay aircraft, which dropped the first atomic bomb of the Second World War on Hiroshima.

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Was the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the US in WW2 justified?

Aerial view of the outside of Treblinka extermination camp, Germany, 1943. (Photo by Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

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Laurence Rees on the perpetrators of the Holocaust: “What they told us was, at the time, they felt it was the right thing to do”

Ancient Egypt: the big questions | A HistoryExtra podcast series

A black and white photograph of a plane with Japanese characters written on its side

He shot down 3 planes in 4 minutes: meet the WW2 pilot you won't have heard about. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of French military officer Charles de Gaulle in uniform wearing a decorated kepi hat against a teal background.

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Meet the embattled French WW2 leader who withstood the Nazis – and Winston Churchill

Hermann Göring testifies in his own defense at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946. Once a leading figure of the Nazi regime, Göring faced prosecution alongside other high-ranking officials for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the aftermath of the Second World War.

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The Nuremberg Trials: the real history behind the post-WW2 tribunal that brought Nazi leaders to justice

On 31 August 1939, children from Chelsea line up with their belongings, ready to be evacuated from London as war looms. Part of a nationwide effort to move civilians — especially children — to safety, the evacuation began just days before Britain entered the Second World War.

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The biggest misconceptions about WW2 evacuees? This historian has the answers

The neutral USA entered World War II only when a Japanese fleet launched a big surprise air raid against its Pacific naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on 7 December 1941. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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When and why did the US get involved in WW2?

A composite image of US President Franklin D Roosevelt in front of the US and Latin American national flags.

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In the aftermath of WW2, why did FDR’s Latin American experiment end in abject failure?

Captain Robert S. Johnson, a former cabinet-maker from Oklahoma, stands beside his aircraft during the Second World War. With 25 confirmed kills, he was the US Air Force’s leading fighter ace in the European theatre and the recipient of numerous decorations.

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On one of WW2’s deadliest air routes, pilots’ biggest fear was surviving a crash – here’s why

On 10 March 1945, Tokyo residents who lost their homes in the devastating US air raid gather amid the ruins. Known as Operation Meetinghouse, the raid was the most destructive bombing in history, part of a wider firebombing campaign during the Pacific War. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Before the atomic bombs, the USA hit Japan with one of the most overlooked (but deadly) campaigns in WW2

A section of the Bayeux Tapestry showing several mounted Norman figures riding left across the scene. The men wear simple tunics and carry spears; their horses are stylised with patterned manes. On the right, a nobleman holds a falcon on his gloved hand, indicating a falconry scene. Decorative animals and small trees fill the border, and a line of Latin text runs above the figures.

Is the Bayeux Tapestry in "mortal danger"? I think that's the wrong question to ask

Josephine Baker's famous banana skirt, which was introduced for Baker’s performance at Paris’s Folies Bergère – an act with which she soon became synonymous.

Singer, dancer, Nazi-fighter: how Josephine Baker became a WW2 heroine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A female agent serving in Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War.

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Step inside the covert WW2 spy network that trained women to kill with their bare hands

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SAS Rogue HeroesThe true story behind the drama

A hill to die on: why the Allies almost failed in the battle of Monte Cassino in WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Firemen tackling a blitz fire at St Paul's Cathedral, London

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WW2 timeline: 20 important dates and milestones you need to know

A portrait of James Bond author Ian Fleming

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Think James Bond's pure fantasy? His creator's real WW2 missions were more outrageous than you'd believe

WW2's Greatest Battles | A HistoryExtra podcast series

Flying ‘the hump’: the US pilots who navigated treacherous skies above the Himalayas in WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

"I felt very alone in a world gone horribly mad": the experiences of evacuees in WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.