Witness History: World War Two history
By BBC World Service
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D Day, traitors and evacuees
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The mystery of Raoul Wallenberg
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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The Purple Heart Warriors
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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The woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Saving lives on D-Day
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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The woman whose weather report changed the date of D-Day
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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The 'comfort women' of World War Two
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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French child evacuees of World War Two
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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The WW2 escape line that fooled the Nazis
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Wang Jingwei: China’s traitor or protector?
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Axis Sally: World War II traitor who broadcast for the Nazis
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Vidkun Quisling: Norway's traitor
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Japan surrenders in China
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Lee Miller in Hitler's bath
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Last communist march before Hitler
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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The Dambusters
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May 17, 2023 |
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German child evacuees of World War Two
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May 16, 2023 |
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World War II victory in North Africa
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May 12, 2023 |
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Warsaw Ghetto uprising
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May 11, 2023 |
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Pink Triangles: Gay men in Nazi concentration camps
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Families interned in WW2 China
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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World War Two child evacuees in Britain
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Shanghai at War
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May 19, 2022 |
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Britain's secret propaganda war
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Nov 06, 2019 |
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Broadcasting D-Day
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Jun 06, 2019 |
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D-Day
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Jun 04, 2019 |
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China and Japan at War
|
Dec 17, 2018 |
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Berlin's Rubble Women
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Dec 03, 2018 |
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The Arnhem Parachute Drop
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Sep 20, 2018 |
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The Climbers of Leningrad
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Dec 28, 2017 |
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The Fake IDs That Saved Jewish Lives
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Oct 25, 2017 |
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Saving Italy's Art During WW2
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Oct 11, 2017 |
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Britain's Land Girls
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Sep 26, 2017 |
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The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials
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Aug 21, 2017 |
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The Sinking of the Lancastria
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Jun 16, 2017 |
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The Roma Victims of the Holocaust
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May 23, 2017 |
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The Katyn Massacre
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Apr 11, 2017 |
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The Germans Occupy Prague
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Mar 16, 2017 |
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Sara Ginaite Lithuanian Jewish Partisan
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Dec 13, 2016 |
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Soviet Woman Bomber Pilot
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Dec 06, 2016 |
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Italy's Partisan Fighters
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Sep 05, 2016 |
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The Fall of Paris
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Jun 17, 2016 |
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The Imaginary War Heroes
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May 09, 2016 |
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The Death of General Patton
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Dec 21, 2015 |
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Surviving Pearl Harbor
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Dec 02, 2015 |
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The Bari Raid 1943
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Dec 01, 2015 |
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Surviving Ravensbruck
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Nov 26, 2015 |
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The Battle of El Alamein
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Nov 05, 2015 |
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The Leningrad Symphony
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Sep 18, 2015 |
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The Auschwitz Cellist
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Aug 29, 2015 |
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The Dieppe Raid
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Aug 18, 2015 |
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Scouts in the Warsaw Uprising
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Jul 28, 2015 |
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German Re-Armament
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Jul 03, 2015 |
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Red Cross Visits Nazi Concentration Camp
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Jul 02, 2015 |
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The Eichmann Tapes
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Jun 04, 2015 |
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The True Story of "Whisky Galore"
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Feb 18, 2014 |
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The Buildup to World War Two
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Feb 10, 2014 |
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War Brides
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Feb 06, 2014 |
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Colossus: the World's First Electronic Computer
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Feb 05, 2014 |
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WW2, the Holocaust and Rome
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Jan 27, 2014 |
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The Minnesota Starvation Experiment
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Jan 20, 2014 |
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Lord Haw Haw - Britain's Most Hated WW2 Traitor
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Jan 03, 2014 |
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Prison Camp in WW2 Manila, Philippines
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Dec 27, 2013 |
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The Tehran Conference of World War Two
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Nov 28, 2013 |
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Degenerate Art and the Nazis
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Nov 04, 2013 |
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Tokyo Rose - The Most Hated Woman in America
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Oct 29, 2013 |
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Escape from Sobibor Death Camp
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Oct 14, 2013 |
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Danish Jews Escape the Holocaust
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Oct 08, 2013 |
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African Troops During WWII
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Oct 01, 2013 |
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Appeasement
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Sep 30, 2013 |
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Special Operations Executive
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Sep 05, 2013 |
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Scientists Flee Nazi Germany
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Aug 13, 2013 |
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Bombing of Nagasaki
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Aug 09, 2013 |
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The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
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Jul 30, 2013 |
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The Death of Jean Moulin
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Jul 08, 2013 |
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Dambusters
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May 17, 2013 |
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The Arctic Convoys
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May 10, 2013 |
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The death of Hitler
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Apr 30, 2013 |
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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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Apr 19, 2013 |
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The Guinea Pig Club
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Apr 10, 2013 |
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The Bethnal Green tube disaster
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Mar 01, 2013 |
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The fall of Singapore
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Feb 14, 2013 |
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The battle of Stalingrad
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Feb 01, 2013 |
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Hitler's will
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Jan 24, 2013 |
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The Hunger Winter
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Jan 22, 2013 |
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Tito on Vis
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Jan 09, 2013 |
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The M Room
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Dec 17, 2012 |
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Edgar Feuchtwanger: Adolf Hitler's Neighbour
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Nov 09, 2012 |
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German refugees in post-war Europe
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Oct 01, 2012 |
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A Polish odyssey
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Sep 17, 2012 |
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US Occupation of Japan
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Aug 14, 2012 |
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Bomber Command
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Jun 29, 2012 |
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Anne Frank's Diary
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Jun 25, 2012 |
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France under Nazi occupation
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Jun 21, 2012 |
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The Psychiatrist and Rudolf Hess
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May 09, 2012 |
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World War II concerts
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Mar 13, 2012 |
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Japanese internment
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Feb 17, 2012 |
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The Wannsee conference
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Jan 20, 2012 |
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The sinking of the Scharnhorst
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Dec 26, 2011 |
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Babi Yar
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Sep 29, 2011 |
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Translator at Nuremberg
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Sep 14, 2011 |
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The Scoop of the Century
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Sep 02, 2011 |
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Battle of Britain
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Jul 13, 2011 |
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Australian evacuee
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Jun 20, 2011 |
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Italian internees
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Jun 10, 2011 |
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Retreat from Dunkirk
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Jun 02, 2011 |
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The fall of Berlin
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May 16, 2011 |
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Victory in Europe Day
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May 06, 2011 |
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The Krakow Ghetto
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Mar 02, 2011 |
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The siege of Leningrad
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Jan 28, 2011 |
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Kindertransport - Oliver's story
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Jan 17, 2011 |
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Pearl Harbour
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Dec 07, 2010 |
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Kindertransports
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Dec 03, 2010 |