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A propaganda photograph showing a typical German family eating the Eintopf, a cost-saving stew promoted by the Third Reich

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

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Count von Stauffenberg

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Businessman Oskar Schindler speaks about saving lives during the Holocaust of Germany's Third Reich at an interview. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Sir Oswald Mosley taking the salute from female members of the BUF

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German soldiers watch a farmhouse they have burned during the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941

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Deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, German officer Paul Schmidt and Adolf Hitler survey damage at Hitler's eastern front military headquarters, ‘the Wolf’s Lair’, hours after a failed bombing attempt by Lieutenant Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. (Photo by Heinrich Hoffmann/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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Should we be glad the 1944 July Plot to kill Hitler failed?

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Sudeten-Germans Salute the Arrival of Nazi Guards in Czechoslovakia, 1938

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Stuka dive bombers fly in formation over France in May 1940

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The making and breaking of the Luftwaffe

Wehrmacht soldiers on parade, 1937

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Woman waving a union jack flag emblazoned with a swastika

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Illustration of Johnny Hopper by Stavros Damos for BBC History Magazine

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Johnny Hopper: a nerveless Nazi-killer