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Adolf Hitler and his lover, Eva Braun, relaxing in Berchtesgaden in 1942. The Nazi leader’s private life was more ‘normal’ than some accounts have suggested (Photo by akg-images)

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King Henry VI of the Hohenstaufen dynasty

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A German soldier seeks cover from the Soviet artillery fire in a field. In the background, smoke rises from the hitting grenades. (Photo by Alamy)

Operation Bagration 1944: the perfect victory on the Eastern Front. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP) approaches Omaha Beach, Normandy on D-Day (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

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The outlaw Johannes Bückler, also known as Schinderhannes

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: SS soldiers with Jewish people before their execution at Babyn Yar. “Each of these murders took place face to face. It was an intimate and barbaric process,” writes James Bulgin. (Photo by YAD VASHEM ARCHIVES)

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A black and white photo of Adolf Hitler standing by a car and wearing a coat, looking towards the camera.

How the Munich Beer Hall Putsch set Hitler on his road to power

Could the Nazis have built the world's first atomic bomb?

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Illustration of the Children's Crusade of 1212, from the Story of the British Nation, Volume 1, by Walter Hutchinson, c1920 (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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British Army tanks are unloaded on to Gold Beach on D-Day

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Construction of the Berlin Wall begins at Ebertstrasse. The barrier would divide the city for 28 years (Photo by von der Becke/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Life in East Germany: the cultural evolution behind the Iron Curtain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Christopher Clark at St Catharine's College, Cambridge (Photo by Damien McFadden)

Christopher Clark“The 1848 revolutions were a dissonant orchestra of ambitions and intentions”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Landmarks of Berlin

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Hitler and Eva Braun pose with their dogs in 1942

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Fake news and Nazis: Richard J Evans on the spectre of conspiracies

A still from American-made war epic All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet On The Western FrontWhy its lessons still matter today

A German soldier captured during the battle of Kursk, July–August 1943. Germany’s last major offensive on the eastern front ended in crushing defeat (Photo by STF/AFP/ GettyImages)

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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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The stomach for the fight: the food policies used by the Nazis to maintain control in the Third Reich

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”

President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev together

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Count von Stauffenberg

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Stasi poets: creative writing & the Cold War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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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?

Munich: the real history behind the new film. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

King George II of Great Britain

George II: 8 facts about the British king and German elector

Neville Chamberlain shows off the Anglo-German Declaration at Heston Aerodrome

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Q&APeace for our time: what was written on Neville Chamberlain's piece of paper?

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