World War Two history
D Day, traitors and evacuees
Nagasaki bomb
On 9 August 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan
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The Chindits
The Chindits, an unconventional special force was formed during World War Two
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'I wrote Schindler's List'
Thomas Keneally stumbled across the story of Oskar Schindler while buying a briefcase
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Exercise Tiger: Disastrous D-Day rehearsal
In April 1944, a German fleet sank two allied ships. Around 749 US servicemen died.
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The death of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler's secretary recalls his last days in 1945
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VE Day celebrations
The scenes of celebration in London on VE Day 1945
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World War Two’s Rome escape line
How an Irish priest saved thousands of allied prisoners of war and Jews in Rome in WW2
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The woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
Polish aid worker Irena Sendler saved 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto in WW2
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The Purple Heart Warriors
In WW2, a Japanese American troop was one of the most decorated army units in US history
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The mystery of Raoul Wallenberg
The Swedish diplomat saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War Two
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The woman whose weather report changed the date of D-Day
Maureen Flavin’s weather report forecast a storm and changed the course of WW2 history
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Saving lives on D-Day
Charles Norman Shay was honoured for saving men from drowning on Omaha Beach on D-Day
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The 'comfort women' of World War Two
Hundreds of thousands of Asian women were forced into sex slavery in the 1930s and 1940s
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Wang Jingwei: China’s traitor or protector?
The national hero was branded a traitor for collaborating with Japan during World War Two
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The WW2 escape line that fooled the Nazis
In 1940 a rescue operation helped Allied servicemen escape from Nazi-occupied France
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The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Vesuvius is famous for burying Pompeii but it last erupted in 1944, during World War II.
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Axis Sally: World War II traitor who broadcast for the Nazis
Mildred Gillars became the first woman in American history to be convicted of treason.
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Vidkun Quisling: Norway's traitor
In 1939, Vidkun Quisling asked Hitler to invade Norway.
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Japan surrenders in China
The signing of the Japanese surrender documents at the Forbidden City in Beijing in 1945.
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Lee Miller in Hitler's bath
In 1945 the war correspondent Lee Miller was photographed in Adolf Hitler's bath
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World War Two child evacuees in Britain
The thousands of children moved out of UK cities away from the risk of German bombs
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French child evacuees of World War Two
In World War Two, tens of thousands of children left Paris to escape the threat of bombs
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German child evacuees of World War Two
Thousands of German children during World War Two were sent to camps in the countryside
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The Dambusters
Eighty years ago a daring raid destroyed dams in Germany's Ruhr Valley
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